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διακόσιοι

diakosioi

two hundred

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. διακόσιοι · diakosioi — Beekes

διακόσιοι [num.] ‘two hundred’ (collective τὴν διακοσίαν ἵππον ‘two hundred horse’ Th. 1, 62). <1E *dui-dkmt- ‘two hundred’> VAR Ion. διηκόσιοι, Dor., etc. διακάτιοι. DER διακοσιοστός ‘the twohundredth’ (Ὁ. H.), ἡ διακοσιοστή name of a half percent tax in Ptolemaic Egypt (pap.); διακοσιάκις (Herod. Med.); διακοσιάπρωτοι name of the highest class of taxpayers (Aphrodisias; after δεκά-πρωτοι); διακοσιοντά-χους … — [Beekes, s.v. διακόσιοι, p. 375]

2. διᾱκόσι-οι · diakosi-oi — LSJ

two hundred, two hundred

two hundred, Hdt. 1.193, etc.: sg. with Noun of multitude, δ. ἵππος two hundred horse, Th. 1.62; v. διακάτιοι.

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. διακόσιοι (scan pp. 375-376; entry #1684).

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