πέντε
Ancient Greek
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Cardinal: πέντε (pénte) Ordinal: πέμπτος (pémptos) Adverbial: πεντᾰ́κῐς (pentákis) Collective: πεντᾰ́ς (pentás), πεμπτᾰ́ς (pemptás) |
Alternative forms
- πέμπε (pémpe) – Aeolic
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *pénkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. Cognates include Sanskrit पञ्चन् (páñcan), Latin quīnque, Old Armenian հինգ (hing) and Old English fīf (English five).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pén.te/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpen.te/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpen.te/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpen.te/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpen.de/
Numeral
πέντε • (pénte) (ordinal πέμπτος, adverbial πεντᾰ́κῐς)
- five
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.317
- 556 BCE – 468 BCE, Simonides, Collected Works 155.11
Usage notes
- πέντε is indeclinable; however, the Aeolic form πέμπε has a genitive πέμπων (pémpōn).
Descendants
- English: penta-
- Glosa: penta
- Greek: πέντε (pénte)
- Mariupol Greek: пе́ндэ (pjénde)
References
- “πέντε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πέντε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πέντε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πέντε 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
- πέντε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πέντε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4002 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.
- five idem, page 324.
Greek
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Cardinal : πέντε (pénte) Ordinal : πέμπτος (pémptos) | ||
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), from Proto-Hellenic *pénkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
Cognate with Mariupol Greek пе́ндэ (pjénde).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpe̞(n)de̞]
Audio (file)
- Hyphenation: πέ‧ντε
Numeral
πέντε • (pénte) n (indeclinable)
- five, 5
- πέντε αισθήσεις
- pénte aisthíseis
- five senses
Related terms
- Ε΄ (E΄), ε΄ (e΄)
- πέμπτος (pémptos, “fifth”)
- πέμπτη f (pémpti, “fifth (gear etc)”)
- Πέμπτη f (Pémpti, “Thursday”)
- πενήντα (penínta, “fifty”)
- πενταδικός (pentadikós, “quinary, pentimal”)
See also
- Greek number and measurement
Further reading
- πέντε - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.