πεντακόσιοι

Ancient Greek

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Cardinal: πεντᾰκόσῐοι (pentakósioi)     Ordinal: πεντᾰκοσῐοστός (pentakosiostós)     Adverbial: πεντᾰκοσῐάκῐς (pentakosiákis), πεντᾰκοσῐοντάκῐς (pentakosiontákis)

Etymology

From πεντα- (penta-) +‎ -ακόσιοι (-akósioi)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pen.ta.kó.si.oi̯/ → /pen.taˈko.si.y/ → /pen.daˈko.si.i/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pen.ta.kó.si.oi̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pen.taˈko.si.y/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pen.taˈko.si.y/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pen.taˈko.si.y/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pen.daˈko.si.i/

Numeral

πεντᾰκόσῐοι • (pentakósioi)

1. five hundred

Inflection

First and second declension of πεντᾰκόσῐοι; πεντᾰκόσῐαι; πεντᾰκόσῐᾰ (Attic)

Number		Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		πεντᾰκόσῐοι pentakósioi	πεντᾰκόσῐαι pentakósiai	πεντᾰκόσῐᾰ pentakósia
Genitive		πεντᾰκοσῐ́ων pentakosíōn	πεντᾰκοσῐ́ων pentakosíōn	πεντᾰκοσῐ́ων pentakosíōn
Dative		πεντᾰκοσῐ́οις pentakosíois	πεντᾰκοσῐ́αις pentakosíais	πεντᾰκοσῐ́οις pentakosíois
Accusative		πεντᾰκοσῐ́ους pentakosíous	πεντᾰκοσῐ́ᾱς pentakosíās	πεντᾰκόσῐᾰ pentakósia
Vocative		πεντᾰκόσῐοι pentakósioi	πεντᾰκόσῐαι pentakósiai	πεντᾰκόσῐᾰ pentakósia
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Singular forms are used with collective nouns.

Quotations

• 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 7:41:

  Δύο χρεωφειλέται ἦσαν δανειστῇ τινί· ὁ εἷς ὤφειλε δηνάρια πεντακόσια, ὁ δὲ ἕτερος πεντήκοντα.

  Dúo khreōpheilétai êsan daneistêi tiní; ho heîs ṓpheile dēnária pentakósia, ho dè héteros pentḗkonta.

  • Translation by KJV

    There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.

• 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 15:6:

  ἔπειτα ὤφθη ἐπάνω πεντακοσίοις ἀδελφοῖς ἐφάπαξ, ἐξ ὧν οἱ πλείους μένουσιν ἕως ἄρτι, τινὲς δὲ καὶ ἐκοιμήθησαν·

  épeita ṓphthē epánō pentakosíois adelphoîs ephápax, ex hôn hoi pleíous ménousin héōs árti, tinès dè kaì ekoimḗthēsan;

  • Translation by KJV

    After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

Further reading

• πεντακόσιοι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πεντακόσιοι”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “πεντακόσιοι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G4001 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible