ἑκατόν: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: num.<br />Meaning: [[hundred]].<br />Other forms: Arc. [[ἑκοτόν]]<br />Compounds: As 1. member in many comp., e. g. <b class="b3">ἑκατόμ-πεδος</b> [[measuring hundred feet]] (Ψ 164; see Sommer Nominalkomp. 28ff.); also <b class="b3">ἑκατοντα-</b> (after <b class="b3">-κοντα-</b>), e. g. <b class="b3">ἑκατοντα-έτης</b> [[hundred years old]] (Pi.).<br />Derivatives: [[ἑκατοστός]] [[the hundredth]] (Ion.-Att.) with [[ἑκατοστύς]] [[the hundred]] (X.); [[ἑκατοστή]] f. [[contribution of 1 percent]] with <b class="b3">ἑκατοστ-ήριος</b>, <b class="b3">-ηρία</b>, <b class="b3">-ιαῖος</b>, <b class="b3">-εύω</b> (Att.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [192] <b class="b2">*dḱm̥tom</b> [[hundred]]<br />Etymology: From Skt. <b class="b2">śatám</b>, Av. [[satǝm]], Toch. B [[känte]], Lat. [[centum]], OIr. [[cēt]], Goth. [[hund]], Lit. <b class="b2">šim̃tas</b>, OCS [[sъto]] we get IE <b class="b2">*ḱm̥tóm</b>, which must have had <b class="b2">d-</b> as appears from <b class="b2">*deḱm̥</b> etc. (s. [[δέκα]]). The <b class="b2">d-</b> had a glottal stop (<b class="b2">ʔd-</b>), which gave [[ἑκατόν]] (Arc. [[ἑκοτόν]] see Schwyzer 88, 344) ; the aspiration was taken from [[ἕν]] [[one]] (s. [[ἕβδομήκοντα]]). - S. Schwyzer 592ff., W.-Hofmann s. [[centum]], Pok. 192.