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Counting to ten in Homeric Greek

Counting to ten in Homeric Greek

Counting from one to 10 in the ancient Greek is as follows: one is "alpha;" two is "beta;" three is "gamma;" four is "delta;" five is "epsilon;" six is "vau;" seven is "zeta;" eight is "eta;" nine is "theta" and 10 is "iota." At that time, the names of the numbers were the same as the names of the letters in the Greek ...

  1. What is the Greek number for 10?
  2. What counting system did the Greeks use?

What is the Greek number for 10?

10. Deka - THEK-a - δέκα: Easy - remember a decade is a group of ten years. Just remember that soft "d" again.

What counting system did the Greeks use?

The first Greek number system we examine is their acrophonic system which was use in the first millennium BC. 'Acrophonic' means that the symbols for the numerals come from the first letter of the number name, so the symbol has come from an abreviation of the word which is used for the number.

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