Wiktionary

penta-

See also: penta

EnglishEdit

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EtymologyEdit

PIE word
*pénkʷe

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. Compare Persian پنج‎, Northern Kurdish pênc, Ossetian фондз (fonʒ), Pashto پنځه‎ (pindzə), Sanskrit पञ्चन् (páñcan).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /pɛntə-/, /pɛntæ-/

PrefixEdit

Greek number prefix
5 Previous: tessara-
tetra-
Next: hexa-

penta-

  1. five

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

English words prefixed with penta-

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HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”).[1]

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛntɒ]
  • Hyphenation: pen‧ta

PrefixEdit

penta-

  1. penta-

Derived termsEdit

Hungarian nouns prefixed with penta-

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

ItalianEdit

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penta-

  1. penta-

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek πεντα- (penta-), combining form of πέντε (pénte, “five”).

PrefixEdit

penta-

  1. penta-

Derived termsEdit

Spanish words prefixed with penta-

Further readingEdit

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