τέσσᾰρες, οἱ, αἱ, τέσσαρα, τά,
genitive ων:
dative τέσσαρσι (ν) [
NT+5th c.BC+];
poetry τέτρᾰσι [
Refs 8th c.BC+], and in late Prose, as [
LXX+1st c.BC+], variant in [
NT], and in good codices of [
Refs 4th c.BC+]:—
Attic dialect τέττᾰρες, τέττᾰρα,
dative τέτταρσιν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; also τάρων (see. τάρες) for τεττάρω; Phocian
dative τεττάροις [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]:—
Ionic dialect and later Gr.
τέσσερες, τέσσερα, [
Refs 5th c.BC+], etc. (
dative τέσσερσι [
LXX+8th c.BC+]; since however τέσσερα(ς) and τεσσεράκοντα, apart from
Ionic dialect, are not common in Papyri before 2nd c.AD, the LXX autographs probably had τέσσαρα(ς) and τεσσαράκοντ; the form τέσσερα(ς) is here due to avoidance by the copyists of the sequence ε-α-α:—
Doric dialect τέτορες, τέτορα, [
Refs 8th c.BC+] —
Epic dialect (probably _Aeolic dialect_)
πίσῠρες [ῐ] [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
genitive πισύρων [
Refs 5th c.AD+];
dative πισύρεσσι, πισύροισι, -ῃσι, -αις, [
Refs 4th c.AD+]:
Aeolic dialect also
πέσῠρες,
neuter πέσῠρα [
Refs]; and
πέσσῠρες,
πέσσῠρα, [
Refs 5th c.AD+]:—
Boeotian dialect πέττᾰρες, α (which see):—
four, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; διὰ τεττάρων the musical interval of
the fourth, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ τέσσαρα
the four simple bodies of Empedocles, [
Refs 3rd c.AD+];
the four kinds of quality or four Aristotelian senses of ποιόν, [
Refs];
the four cardinal principles of Epicurus (compare τετραφάρμακος), [
Refs 1st c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit
catvā´ras (
accusative catúras), Latin
quattuor, Lithuanian
keturì, etc.: I.-[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
q[uglide]et[uglide]or-.)
Источник: STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0
