penta-
See also: penta
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- pent- (before a vowel)
EtymologyEdit
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
PrefixEdit
5 | Previous: | tessara- tetra- |
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Next: | hexa- |
penta-
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
- pentacle
- pentagon
- pentagram
- pentahedron
- pentalogy
- pentameter
- Pentateuch
- pentathlete
- pentathlon
- pentatonic
- pentomino
- pentaprism
TranslationsEdit
five
AnagramsEdit
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”).[1]
PronunciationEdit
PrefixEdit
penta-
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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
Alternative formsEdit
PrefixEdit
penta-
Derived termsEdit
- pentadecagono
- pentaeritrite
- pentagramma
- pentalineo
- pentano
- pentapartito
- pentapodia
- pentaprisma
- pentatomico
- pentatonico
- pentavalente
Related termsEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek πεντα- (penta-), combining form of πέντε (pénte, “five”).
PrefixEdit
penta-