πέμπτος

From Proto-Hellenic *penkʷtos, derived from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. Equivalent to πέντε (pénte, “five”) +‎ -τος (-tos, adjectival suffix), but the Proto-Hellenic labiovelar *kʷ developed into the labial π (p) instead of the dental consonant τ (t).

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πέμπτος • (pémptos) m (feminine πέμπτη, neuter πέμπτον); first/second declension

1. fifth
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.335
2. (feminine substantive)
   1. the fifth day
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 800, 801
   2. via quintana, one of the lanes in the Roman camp
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 6.30,6

• Greek: πέμπτος (pémptos)

• “πέμπτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πέμπτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πέμπτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πέμπτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πέμπτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πέμπτος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3991 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.
  • fifth idem, page 318.

From the Ancient Greek πέμπτος (pémptos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpemptos/, /ˈpemtos/

πέμπτος • (pémptos) m (feminine πέμπτη, neuter πέμπτο)

1. fifth

• πέντε n (pénte, “five”)
• πέμπτη f (pémpti, “fifth (gear etc)”)
• Πέμπτη f (Pémpti, “Thursday”)

• Greek number and measurement