Ancient Greek

Numeral

δεύτερος • ‎(deúteros)

1. (ordinal) second of two
   1. conjoined with εἷς ‎(heîs) or other numerals: another, a second
2. (of things set in order) second, next, another
   1. (modifying a noun of time) after [+genitive = something], next
   2. (connected with ranking) next best [+ μετά (accusative) = after something or someone]
   3. (of quality) inferior
   4. less important, secondary [+genitive = than, to something or someone]
   5. δεύτερος οὐδενός ‎(deúteros oudenós): second to none

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: deutero-, Deuteronomy, deuterocanonical, deuterium

References

• δεύτερος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δεύτερος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δεύτερος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «δεύτερος» 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
• «δεύτερος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «δεύτερος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• δεύτερος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1208”, 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.
  • next best idem, page 557.
  • second idem, page 746.
  • secondary idem, page 746.
  • subordinate idem, page 831.
  • subservient idem, page 832.
  • subsidiary idem, page 832.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, § 398.2
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Greek

Adjective

δεύτερος • ‎(défteros) m ‎(feminine δεύτερη, neuter δεύτερο)

1. (ordinal) second

   Ήρθε δεύτερος στο Μαραθώνιο.‎ ― Írthe défteros sto Marathónio. ― He came second in the marathon.

2. inferior, seconds

   δεύτερης ποιότητας‎ ― défteris poiótitas ― inferior quality

Declension

Usage notes

• There are alternative learned forms:

  δευτέρου ‎(deftérou) (masculine and neuter, genitive singular)

  δευτέρα ‎(deftéra) (feminine, nominative, accusative and vocative singular)

  δευτέρας ‎(deftéras) (feminine, genitive singular)

  δευτέρων ‎(deftéron) (all genders, genitive plural)

Related terms

See also

• Greek number and measurement