ἐννέα

See also: εννέα

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

	90
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Cardinal: ἐννέᾰ (ennéa)     Ordinal: ἔνᾰτος (énatos)     Adverbial: ἐνᾰ́κῐς (enákis)     Collective: ἐννεᾰ́ς (enneás)

Alternative forms

• ἐννῆ (ennê) — Doric
• ἔννεᾰ (énnea) — Aeolic
• ἐννία (ennía) — Boeotian
• ἐννῆᾰ (ennêa), ἑννέα (hennéa)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *ennéwə, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Cognates include Old Armenian ինն (inn), Sanskrit नवन् (navan), Latin novem, and Old English nigon (English nine).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /en.né.a/ → /enˈne.a/ → /eˈne.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /en.né.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /enˈne.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /enˈne.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /enˈne.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈne.a/

Numeral

ἐννέᾰ • (ennéa) (ordinal ἔνᾰτος, adverbial ἐνᾰ́κῐς)

1. nine

Derived terms

• ἐννῆμαρ (ennêmar)

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek:
  • Greek: εννιά (enniá), εννέα (ennéa)
  • Mariupol Greek: энэ́я (enéja)
  • → Romani: enia, enǎ (International Standard); enja, inja
• → English: ennea-

References

• “ἐννέᾰ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐννέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἐννέα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἐννέα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἐννέα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἐννέα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἐννέα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1767 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • nine idem, page 558.