Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τέττᾰρες ‎(téttares) Attic
• τέσσερες ‎(tésseres) Ionic, later Greek
• τέτορες ‎(tétores) Doric
• πῐ́σῠρες ‎(písures) Epic, Aeolic
• πέσῠρες ‎(pésures), πέσσῠρες ‎(péssures) Aeolic
• πέττᾰρες ‎(péttares) Boeotian

Numeral

τέσσᾰρες • ‎(téssares) ‎(ordinal τέτᾰρτος, adverbial τετρᾰ́κῐς)

1. (cardinal) four

Declension

Derived terms

• τεσσᾰρεσκαίδεκᾰ ‎(tessareskaídeka)

Descendants

• English: tessara-
• Greek: τέσσερις ‎(tésseris)

References

• τέσσᾰρες in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τέσσαρες in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τέσσαρες in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «τέσσαρες» 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
• «τέσσαρες» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• τέσσαρες in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5064”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • four idem, page 341.