penta-
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- pent- (before a vowel)
Etymology
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| *pénkʷe |
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πεντᾰ- (pentă-, “five”), from πέντε (pénte, “five”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. Compare Persian پنج, Northern Kurdish pênc, Ossetian фондз (fonʒ), Pashto پنځه (pindzə), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of five, which was inherited from Proto-Germanic.
Pronunciation
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penta-
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[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πεντα- (penta-), combining form of πέντε (pénte, “five”).
Prefix
[edit]penta-
Derived terms
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]penta-
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “penta-”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”).[1]
Pronunciation
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[edit]penta-
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεντα- (penta-), combining form of πέντε (pénte, “five”).
Prefix
[edit]penta-
Derived terms
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[edit]- penta- in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- pènta- in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- penta- in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεντα- (penta-), combining form of πέντε (pénte, “five”). Doublet of cinco.
Pronunciation
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Prefix
[edit]penta-
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “penta-”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “penta-”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεντα- (penta-), combining form of πέντε (pénte, “five”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]penta-
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “penta-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *pénkʷe
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
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- English lemmas
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- en:Five
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- fr:Five
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