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A177232
Number of letters in the Greek name of n, excluding spaces.
0
5, 3, 3, 4, 7, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 6, 6, 8, 11, 9, 7, 8, 8, 9, 6, 9, 9, 10, 13, 11, 9, 10, 10, 11, 7, 10, 10, 11, 14, 12, 10, 11, 11, 12, 7, 10, 10, 11, 14, 12, 10, 11, 11, 12, 7, 10, 10, 11, 14, 12, 10, 11, 11, 12, 6, 9, 9, 10, 13, 11, 9, 10, 10, 11, 9, 12, 12, 13, 16, 14, 12, 13, 13, 14, 7
OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
Greek has its own alphabet, which for our convenience here we will transliterate as a, b, g, d, e, z, i, th, i, k, l, m, n, x, o, p, r, s, t, i, f, ch, ps, o.
Watts (2004) gives alternate spellings for 7, 8, 9 (and 17, 18, 19) which presumably carry over to all numbers having those digits. The accent is placed differently in the word for 9: enniá instead of ennéa, but the number of letters remains the same. - Alonso del Arte, Feb 24 2013
REFERENCES
David Holton, Peter Mackridge, Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Greek: An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language. London: Routledge (2004): 105-107.
Niki Watts, Colloquial Greek: The Complete Course for Beginners. London: Routledge (2004): 35-36.
EXAMPLE
1 to 21: Ena, dio, tria, tessera, pente, exi, epta, okto, ennea, deka, endeka, dideka, dekatria, dekatessera, dekapente, dekaexi, dekaepta, dekaokto, dekaennea, eikosi, eikosi ena.
30: Trianta
40: Saranta
50: Peninta
60: Exinta
70: Ebdominta
80: Ogdonta
90: Eneninta
100: Ekaton or ekato
200: Diakosioi
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A208123 A090489 A090484 * A200099 A182129 A010038
KEYWORD
nonn,word
AUTHOR
Antoine Lafranchis (antlafranchis(AT)gmail.com), May 05 2010
STATUS
approved