[B-Greek] TREIS KAI DEKA
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Fri Sep 23 13:52:49 EDT 2005
On Sep 23, 2005, at 1:23 PM, N.E. Barry Hofstetter wrote:
>> From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at ioa.com>
>> Date: Fri Sep 23 12:18:41 CDT 2005
>> To: B-Greek B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Cc: eunice.yantzi at utoronto.ca, "N.E. Barry Hofstetter"
>> <nebarry at verizon.net>
>> Subject: TREIS KAI DEKA
>>
>
>
>> Would list-members please not completely switch the topic and retain
>> unrelated subject-headers?
>>
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> Deepest apologies, O Great One. Sincerely did not mean to offen.
Apologies are due the Great List. Don't do it too offen. The truth
is, however,
that the message about Greek for "thirteen" was piggy-backed on the
"Authors Sue Google Over Library Initiative" thread before you
responded.
>
>>> TRESKAIDEKA, isn't it?
>>>
>>
>> That sounds a bit Latin; Smyth gives TREIS KAI DEKA or TRIA KAI DEKA.
>>
>
> Ah, I knew there was another form I had seen somewhere, couldn't
> remember it.
>
> But what does it sound Latin? Except for the spacing, your first
> example is the same as what I wrote? Am I missing something?
You wrote TRES (KAI DEKA): TRES is Latin for three; I wrote TREIS
(KAI DEKA).
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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