The corpus record

εἰκοστός

eikostos

twentieth, a tax of a twentieth

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Where it lives

Paralipomenon I 10 · 7.52/10k
Esdras II 4 · 3.37/10k
Regnorum IV 4 · 2.31/10k
Regnorum III 3 · 1.57/10k
Odyssey 11 · 1.27/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 12 · 1.12/10k
Ezechiel 2 · 0.69/10k
Paralipomenon II 1 · 0.51/10k
History 7 · 0.47/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
Histories 4 · 0.22/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

εἰκοστός · eikostos — LSJ

twentieth

twentieth, Od. 5.34, etc.; Ep. also ἐεικοστός Il. 24.765.

II a tax of a twentieth

εἰκοστή, ἡ, a tax of a twentieth, εἰ. τῶν γιγνομένων, τῶν κατὰ θάλασσαν, Th. 6.54, 7.28.

εἰ. ἐλευθερίας or -ιῶν, = Lat. vicesima manumissionum, IG 3.1446, BGU 96.8, etc.

In the wild

εἰκοστὸν · eikoston Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 164)
εἰκοστῷ · eikostōi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 37)
εἰκοστῷ · eikostōi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 2)
εἰκοστῆς · eikostēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8655)
εἰκοστῇ · eikostēi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9304)
εἰκοστῇ · eikostēi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.6 (DIORISIS sentence 1457)

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Where it came from

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