Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /tálanton/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tálanton/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tálãdon/

Noun

τάλαντον • ‎(tálanton) n ‎(genitive ταλάντου); second declension

1. balance, scale
   1. tax paid for use of public scales
2. anything weighed
   1. talent (weight, often of gold or silver)
   2. the monetary sum equaling a talent (weight) of gold or silver

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: talentum
  • English: talent
• Old Armenian: տաղանդ ‎(tałand)
  • Armenian: տաղանդ ‎(tałand)
• Russian: тала́нт m ‎(talánt)

References

• τάλαντον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τάλαντον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τάλαντον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «τάλαντον» 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
• «τάλαντον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G5007”, 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.
  • balance idem, page 59.
  • pound idem, page 630.
  • scale idem, page 736.
  • talent idem, page 854.
• 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