τέσσαρες

• τέττᾰρες (téttares) — Attic
• τέσσερες (tésseres) — Ionic, later Greek
• τέτορες (tétores) — Doric
• πῐ́σῠρες (písures) — Epic, Aeolic
• πέσῠρες (pésures), πέσσῠρες (péssures) — Aeolic
• πέττᾰρες (péttares) — Boeotian

From Proto-Hellenic *kʷétwores, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀤𐀵𐀫 (qe-to-ro), Sanskrit चतुर् (catur), Old Armenian չորք (čʻorkʻ), Latin quattuor, and Old English fēower (English four).

τέσσᾰρες • (téssares) (ordinal τέτᾰρτος, adverbial τετρᾰ́κῐς)

1. four

• τετρα- (tetra-)
• τεσσᾰρεσκαίδεκᾰ (tessareskaídeka)
• τεσσαράκοντα (tessarákonta)

• English: tessara-
• Greek: τέσσερις (tésseris)
• Mariupol Greek: тэ́сэра (tésera), тэ́сера (tésjera)

• “τέσσᾰρες”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τέσσαρες”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τέσσαρες”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τέσσαρες in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• τέσσαρες in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τέσσαρες”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5064 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • four idem, page 341.