Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τέτρατος ‎(tétratos) (poetic)

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

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

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

Adjective

τέταρτος • ‎(tétartos) m ‎(feminine τετάρτη, neuter τέταρτον); first/second declension

1. (ordinal) fourth
2. (in neuter, τὸ τέταρτον, as an adverb) fourthly
   • Plato, Phaedrus 266.E
   • Plato, Timaeus 86.A
   • Christian Lobeck, On Phrynichus 311
   1. (elliptically for τέταρτος μέρος ‎(méros)) fourth, quarter
      • Diodorus Siculus, Library 1.50
3. (in feminine)
   1. (elliptically for τετάρτη ἡμέρα ‎(hēméra)) the fourth day
      • Hesiod, Works and Days 802
      • Xenophon, Anabasis 4.8.21
   2. (elliptically for τετάρτη μοῖρα ‎(moîra)) a liquid measure (compare English quart); The Spartan kings had a μέδινος ‎(médinos) of corn, and a τετάρτη ‎(tetártē) of wine on the 1st and 7th of the month
      • Herodotus, Histories 6.57
      1. a fourth part
         • Strabo, Geography 704

Inflection

References

• τέταρτος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τέταρτος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τέταρτος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «τέταρτος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «τέταρτος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• τέταρτος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5067”, 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.
  • fourth idem, page 341.

Greek

Adjective

τέταρτος • ‎(tétartos) m ‎(feminine τέταρτη, neuter τέταρτο)

1. fourth (the ordinal form of τέσσερα)

Declension

See also

• Greek number and measurement