πεντήκοντα

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Ancient Greek

**Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)**
		500
	← 40	νʹ 50	59 →	60 →
		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

(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)

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, 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)

Katharevousa form of πενήντα (penínta)

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