τάλαντον

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂ent-, from *telh₂-, whence also ἔτλην (étlēn, “to carry, endure”).

τᾰ́λαντον • (tálanton) n (genitive τᾰλάντου); second declension

balance, scale (usually in the plural)
1. tax paid for use of public scales
anything weighed
1. talent (weight, often of gold or silver)
2. the monetary sum equaling a talent (weight) of gold or silver

Second declension of τὸ τᾰ́λαντον; τοῦ τᾰλάντου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τᾰ́λαντον tò tálanton	τὼ τᾰλάντω tṑ talántō	τᾰ̀ τᾰ́λαντᾰ tà tálanta
Genitive	τοῦ τᾰλάντου toû talántou	τοῖν τᾰλάντοιν toîn talántoin	τῶν τᾰλάντων tôn talántōn
Dative	τῷ τᾰλάντῳ tôi talántōi	τοῖν τᾰλάντοιν toîn talántoin	τοῖς τᾰλάντοις toîs talántois
Accusative	τὸ τᾰ́λαντον tò tálanton	τὼ τᾰλάντω tṑ talántō	τᾰ̀ τᾰ́λαντᾰ tà tálanta
Vocative	τᾰ́λαντον tálanton	τᾰλάντω talántō	τᾰ́λαντᾰ tálanta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

τάλαντον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
τάλαντον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
τάλαντον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
τάλαντον 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
τάλαντον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G5007 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- balance idem, page 59.
- pound idem, page 630.
- scale idem, page 736.
- talent idem, page 854.
τάλαντον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

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