πένταθλον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πεντάεθλον (pentáethlon) — Ionic

Etymology

From πεντα- (penta-, “five”) +‎ ἆθλον (âthlon, “contest”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pén.taː.tʰlon/ → /ˈpen.ta.θlon/ → /ˈpen.da.θlon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pén.taː.tʰlon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.ta.tʰlon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.ta.θlon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.ta.θlon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpen.da.θlon/

Noun

πέντᾱθλον • (péntāthlon) n (genitive πεντᾱ́θλου); second declension

1. the contest of the five exercises, pentathlon

Declension

Second declension of τὸ πέντᾱθλον; τοῦ πεντᾱ́θλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πέντᾱθλον tò péntāthlon	τὼ πεντᾱ́θλω tṑ pentā́thlō	τᾰ̀ πέντᾱθλᾰ tà péntāthla
Genitive	τοῦ πεντᾱ́θλου toû pentā́thlou	τοῖν πεντᾱ́θλοιν toîn pentā́thloin	τῶν πεντᾱ́θλων tôn pentā́thlōn
Dative	τῷ πεντᾱ́θλῳ tôi pentā́thlōi	τοῖν πεντᾱ́θλοιν toîn pentā́thloin	τοῖς πεντᾱ́θλοις toîs pentā́thlois
Accusative	τὸ πέντᾱθλον tò péntāthlon	τὼ πεντᾱ́θλω tṑ pentā́thlō	τᾰ̀ πέντᾱθλᾰ tà péntāthla
Vocative	πέντᾱθλον péntāthlon	πεντᾱ́θλω pentā́thlō	πέντᾱθλᾰ péntāthla
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: петобой (petoboj) (calque)
• → Catalan: pentatló
• → Czech: pentatlon
• → Czech: pětiboj (calque)
• → Dutch: pentatlon
• → English: pentathlon
  • Japanese: ペンタスロン (pentasuron)
• → Finnish: viisiottelu (calque)
• → French: pentathlon
• → Galician: péntatlon
• → German: Pentathlon
• → German: Fünfkampf (calque)
• → Indonesian: pancalomba (calque)
• → Italian: pentathlon
• → Macedonian: пентатлон (pentatlon)
• → Macedonian: петобој (petoboj) (calque)
• → Portuguese: pentatlo
• → Romanian: pentatlon
• → Russian: пятибо́рье (pjatibórʹje) (calque)
• → Spanish: pentatlón
• → Ukrainian: п'ятибо́рство (pʺjatybórstvo) (calque)

Further reading

• πένταθλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πένταθλον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “πένταθλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press