πεντάκις

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: πέντε (pénte)     Ordinal: πέμπτος (pémptos)     Adverbial: πεντᾰ́κῐς (pentákis)     Collective: πεντᾰ́ς (pentás), πεμπτᾰ́ς (pemptás)

Alternative forms

• πεντᾰ́κῐ (pentáki)
• πεμπάκιν (pempákin) — Laconian

Etymology

From πέντε (pénte, “five”) +‎ -ᾰ́κῐς (-ákis, suffix for adverb of repetition).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pen.tá.kis/ → /penˈta.cis/ → /penˈda.cis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pen.tá.kis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /penˈta.kis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /penˈta.cis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /penˈta.cis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /penˈda.cis/

Adverb

πεντᾰ́κῐς • (pentákis) (cardinal πέντε, ordinal πέμπτος)

1. (adverbial) five times
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 6.19
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 323
   • 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 242
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Philip 5

Derived terms

• πεντακισεπένατος (pentakisepénatos)
• πεντακισμύριοι (pentakismúrioi)
• πεντακισμύριος (pentakismúrios)
• πεντακισχίλιοι (pentakiskhílioi)

References

• “πεντάκῐς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πεντάκις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πεντάκις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πεντάκις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3999 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • five idem, page 324.