δισχίλιοι

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

	20,000
←  1,000	͵β 2,000	3,000  →
	200
Cardinal: δῐσχῑ́λῐοι (diskhī́lioi)     Ordinal: δῐσχῑλῐοστός (diskhīliostós)     Adverbial: δῐσχῑλῐᾰ́κῐς (diskhīliákis)

Etymology

From δῐ́ς (dís, “twice”) χῑ́λῐοι (khī́lioi, “thousand”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dis.kʰǐː.li.oi̯/ → /ðisˈçi.li.y/ → /ðisˈçi.li.i/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dis.kʰǐː.li.oi̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /disˈkʰi.li.y/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðisˈçi.li.y/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðisˈçi.li.y/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðisˈçi.li.i/

Numeral

δῐσχῑ́λῐοι • (diskhī́lioi) (ordinal δῐσχῑλῐοστός, adverbial δῐσχῑλῐᾰ́κῐς)

1. two thousand

Inflection

First and second declension of δῐσχῑ́λῐοι; δῐσχῑ́λῐαι; δῐσχῑ́λῐᾰ (Attic)

Number		Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		δῐσχῑ́λῐοι diskhī́lioi	δῐσχῑ́λῐαι diskhī́liai	δῐσχῑ́λῐᾰ diskhī́lia
Genitive		δῐσχῑλῐ́ων diskhīlíōn	δῐσχῑλῐ́ων diskhīlíōn	δῐσχῑλῐ́ων diskhīlíōn
Dative		δῐσχῑλῐ́οις diskhīlíois	δῐσχῑλῐ́αις diskhīlíais	δῐσχῑλῐ́οις diskhīlíois
Accusative		δῐσχῑλῐ́ους diskhīlíous	δῐσχῑλῐ́ᾱς diskhīlíās	δῐσχῑ́λῐᾰ diskhī́lia
Vocative		δῐσχῑ́λῐοι diskhī́lioi	δῐσχῑ́λῐαι diskhī́liai	δῐσχῑ́λῐᾰ diskhī́lia
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “δισχίλιοι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δισχίλιοι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δισχίλιοι 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
• δισχίλιοι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1367 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.
  • thousand idem, page 868.