εἰκαδισταί

εἰκᾰδισταί, ῶν, οἱ, epith. of the Epicureans, because they commemorated their founder's death

A on the twentieth ([etym.] εἰκάς) of Gamelion, Ath.7.298d.

Grammatical information: num.

Meaning: `twenty'.

Other forms: Hom. also ἐείκοσι (s. below), Dor. Ϝίκατι

Compounds: As 1. member often εἰκοσα-, e. g. ἐεικοσάβοιος `worth twenty cows' (Od.; after ἑπτα-, τετρα- etc.). On εἰκοσινήριτος Χ 349 s. νήριτος.

Derivatives: εἰκοσάκις `twenty times' (Il.), εἰκοσάς f. `twenty pieces' (late; cf. εἰκάς below), ( ἐ)εἰκοστός (Boeot. Ϝικαστός) `the tentieth' (Il.); f. εἰκοστή `the twentieth' with εἰκοσταῖος `belonging to the 20. day' (Hp.; as δευτεραῖος a. o.); - also εἰκάς f., Dor. ἰκάς, Ther. hικάς `thenumber twenty, the 20th day of the month' (Hes.), after δεκάς, τριακάς etc. (not with Schwyzer 597 original formtion to ( ἐ)ἴκατι); from here εἰκαδεῖς the members of a society, that met on the 20th, eponymous founder Εἰκαδεύς (Athens; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 71 a. 180, v. Wilamowitz Glaube 2, 368 n. 1), εἰκαδισταί surame of the Epicureans (Ath.), cf. δεκαδισταί to δεκάς (s. δέκα).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1177] *du̯i-dkm̥t-iH `twenty'

Etymology: Hom. ἐείκοσι for ἐ-(Ϝ)ί̄κοσι (wit prothetic vowel from the glottalic feature of the *d-; Korlandt, MSS 42 (1983)97-104); graphically influenced by kontracted εἴκοσι; thus Herakl. Ϝείκατι. The ο-vowel in εἴκοσι from εἰκοστός (diff. Meillet MSL 16, 217ff.; s. Schwyzer 344), this after τριακοστός etc. with - ο- after τριάκοντα etc. - PGr. (ʔ)Ϝί̄κατι, (ʔ)Ϝῑκαστός (= Dor., Boeot.), as in Av. vīsaⁱti. Skt. viṃśatí- f. with secondary nasalisation and i-flexion, and sec. stress (Schulze KZ 28, 277 n. 1 = Kl. Schr. 99 n. 3; cf. Schwyzer 381), Lat. vīgintī with sec. g; IE *ʔu̯i-ʔḱm̥t-ī̆ prop. du. `two dekades' (from *-dḱm̥t-), to IE *du̯i- `two' and δέκα, s. v. and ἑκατόν. - Details Schwyzer 591, Wackernagel-Debrunner Aind. Gramm. 3, 366f., W.-Hofmann s. vīgintī.

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