COMPOUND: ἑξήκοντα
CATEGORIZATION: Num [Num+Num]
MEANING: ‘sixty’ (< ‘six times ten’)
ETYMOLOGY: ἕξ ‘six’ + num. root κοντα (< *dkomt, cfr. δέκα) ‘ten, a ten’
OCCURRENCE: Il. II, 587, 610; Od. XIV, 20
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: indecl.
HEADEDNESS: endocentric (double-headed)
CLASSIFICATION: syntagmatic compound
NOTES: in composition ἕξ has α inserted