πεντήκοντα

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

		500
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		5
Cardinal: πεντήκοντα (pentḗkonta)     Ordinal: πεντηκοστός (pentēkostós)     Collective: πεντηκοντάς (pentēkontás)

Alternative forms

• πεντείκοντα (penteíkonta) — Boeotian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *penkʷēḱomth₂, from earlier *pénkʷedḱomt (“fifty”). Cognates include Latin quīnquāgintā, Sanskrit पञ्चाशत् (pañcāśát) and Old Armenian յիսուն (yisun).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pen.tɛ̌ː.kon.ta/ → /penˈti.kon.ta/ → /penˈdi.kon.da/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pen.tɛ̌ː.kon.ta/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /penˈte̝.kon.ta/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /penˈti.kon.ta/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /penˈti.kon.ta/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /penˈdi.kon.da/

Numeral

πεντήκοντᾰ • (pentḗkonta) (ordinal πεντηκοστός, adverbial πεντηκοντᾰ́κῐς)

1. fifty

Descendants

• Greek: πενήντα (penínta)
• → Greek: πεντήκοντα (pentíkonta) (Katharevousa)

Further reading

• “πεντήκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πεντήκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πεντήκοντα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πεντήκοντα 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
• πεντήκοντα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πεντήκοντα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4004 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.
  • fifty idem, page 318.

Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεντήκοντα (pentḗkonta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /penˈdikonda/
• Hyphenation: πε‧ντή‧κο‧ντα

Numeral

πεντήκοντα • (pentíkonta)

1. Katharevousa form of πενήντα (penínta)