πέντε

Ancient Greek

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Cardinal: πέντε (pénte)     Ordinal: πέμπτος (pémptos)     Adverbial: πεντᾰ́κῐς (pentắkĭs)     Collective: πεντᾰ́ς (pentắs), πεμπτᾰ́ς (pemptắs)

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

 

• IPA^(key): /pén.te/ → /ˈpen.te/ → /ˈpen.de/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pén.te/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.te/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.te/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.te/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.de/

Numeral

πέντε • (pénte) (ordinal πέμπτος, adverbial πεντᾰ́κῐς)

1. five
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.317
   • 556 BCE – 468 BCE, Simonides, Fragmenta 155.11

Usage notes

• πέντε is indeclinable; however, the Aeolic form πέμπε has a genitive πέμπων (pémpōn).

Derived terms

• πεντα- (penta-)

Descendants

• Greek: πέντε (pénte)
• Mariupol Greek: пе́нды (pjéndy)

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

Greek cardinal numbers

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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 пе́нды (pjéndy).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpe̞(n)de̞]

Audio:

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• Hyphenation: πέ‧ντε

Numeral

πέντε • (pénte) n (indeclinable)

1. five, 5

   πέντε αισθήσεις

   pénte aisthíseis

   five senses

Related terms

• Ε΄, ε΄
• Πέμπτη f (Pémpti, “Thursday”)
• πέμπτη f (pémpti, “fifth (gear etc)”)
• πέμπτος (pémptos, “fifth”)
• πενήντα (penínta, “fifty”)
• πενταδικός (pentadikós, “quinary, pentimal”)

See also

• Greek number and measurement

Further reading

• πέντε, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language