[B-Greek] Format of compound numbers

Louis Sorenson llsorenson at hotmail.com
Sat Jul 25 18:14:50 EDT 2009


I just noticed Smyth's note 350

a. Compound numbers above 20 are expressed by placing the smaller number first (with καί) or the larger number first (with or without καί).

δύο καὶ εἴκοσι(ν) two and twenty    δεύτερος καὶ εἰκοστός

εἴκοσι καὶ δύο twenty and two, or εἴκοσι δύο twenty-two    εἰκοστὸς καὶ δεύτερος

Sorry for missing that -- just had shoulder surgery yesterday.  So I take it that any compound numbers 20 and up can be inverted.  So the corollary is that the teen numbers are never inverted, even when written separately (e.g. TREIS KAI DEKA is never written DEKA KAI TREIS)?

Louis Sorenson 

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