pentagram

See also: Pentagram

English

pentagram

Alternative forms

• pentagramme (rare, archaic)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πεντάγραμμον (pentágrammon), noun form of the adjectives πεντάγραμμος (pentágrammos) and πεντέγραμμος (pentégrammos, “five-lined, having five lines”). Equivalent to penta- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pĕnʹ-tə-grăm, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛn.tə.ɡɹæm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: pen‧ta‧gram
• Rhymes: -ɛntəɡɹæm

Noun

pentagram (plural pentagrams)

1. The shape of a five-pointed star constructed of five intersecting lines meeting at the vertices, such that a central pentagon and five surrounding isosceles triangles are formed; often with magical connotations; a 5/2 (or 5/3) star polygon.
   • 1871, W. J. C. Miller, editor, Mathematical Questions and Solutions, volume XV, page 47:

     Prove that the circles so belonging to the 6 pentagrams formed by 6 lines meet in a point, and so on; the series of theorems being interminable.

   • 2007, Christopher Penczak, The Temple of High Witchcraft: Ceremonies, Spheres, and the Witches' Qabalah‎^[1], page 345:

     The passive pentagrams of spirit are drawn first in the quarters of the passive elements—water and earth—and likewise followed by the appropriate traditional elemental pentagram.

   • 2012, John Barnes, Gems of Geometry‎^[2], page 59:

     Four figures involve 12 pentagrams arranged as in the faces of a dodecahedron with their vertices touching.

Synonyms

• pentacle
• pentalpha
• pentangle

Holonyms

• pentacle

Derived terms

• inverted pentagram
• Pentagram

 

Related terms

• (star shape): hexagram (6-pointed), heptagram (7-pointed), octogram (8-pointed), nonagram (9-pointed), decagram (10-pointed)

Translations

shape of five-pointed star

• Albanian: pentagram (sq) m
• Armenian: հնգագիծ (hy) (hngagic)
• Azerbaijani: pentaqramma
• Basque: pentagrama
• Bulgarian: пентаграм m (pentagram), пентаграма f (pentagrama)
• Catalan: pentagrama (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 五角星 (ng⁵ gok³ sing¹)

  Mandarin: 五角星 (zh) (wǔjiǎoxīng)

• Chuvash: пентаграмма (pent̬agramma)
• Czech: pentagram (cs) m
• Danish: pentagram n
• Dutch: pentagram (nl) n
• Esperanto: pentagramo
• Estonian: pentagramm
• Finnish: pentagrammi (fi), viisikanta (fi)
• French: pentagramme (fr) m
• Friulian: pentagram m
• Galician: pentagrama (gl) m
• Georgian: პენტაგრამა (ṗenṭagrama)
• German: Pentagramm (de) n
• Hebrew: פֶּנְטַגְרָם (he) m (pentagram)
• Hindi: पेंटाग्राम (pẽṭāgrām)
• Hungarian: pentagramma (hu), pentagram (hu)
• Icelandic: fimmstirningur m, reglulegur fimmstirningur m
• Ido: pentagramo (io)
• Indonesian: pentagram (id)
• Irish: peinteagram m
• Italian: pentagramma (it) m
• Japanese: 五芒星 (ja) (ごぼうせい, gobōsei)
• Kazakh: пентаграмма (pentagramma), жұлдызды бесбұрыш (jūldyzdy besbūryş)
• Korean: 오각성 (ogakseong), 오각별 (ogakbyeol), 오망성 (omangseong), 펜타그램 (pentageuraem)
• Latin: pentagrammum n
• Latvian: pentagramma (lv) f
• Lithuanian: pentagrama f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pentagram (no) n

  Nynorsk: pentagram n

• Polish: pentagram (pl) m, gwiazda pitagorejska f
• Portuguese: pentagrama (pt) m
• Romanian: pentagramă (ro) f
• Russian: пентагра́мма (ru) f (pentagrámma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пе̏нтаграм m

  Roman: pȅntagram (sh) m

• Slovak: pentagram m
• Slovene: pentagram m
• Spanish: pentagrama (es) m
• Swedish: pentagram (sv) n
• Tamil: பெண்டகிராம் (peṇṭakirām)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: སྐར་མ་ཟུར་ལྡ (skar ma zur lda)
• Turkish: pentagram (tr)
• Ukrainian: пентагра́ма f (pentahráma)
• Uzbek: pentagramma (uz)
• Zazaki: pencagram

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛntaɡram]

Noun

pentagram m inan

1. (geometry) pentagram (five-pointed star polygon)
2. (occult) pentagram (magical symbol)

Declension

Declension of pentagram (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	pentagram	pentagramy
genitive	pentagramu	pentagramů
dative	pentagramu	pentagramům
accusative	pentagram	pentagramy
vocative	pentagrame	pentagramy
locative	pentagramu	pentagramech
instrumental	pentagramem	pentagramy

Further reading

• “pentagram”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “pentagram”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “pentagram”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Danish

Noun

pentagram n (singular definite pentagrammet, plural indefinite pentagrammer)

1. pentagram

Declension

Declension of pentagram

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pentagram	pentagrammet	pentagrammer	pentagrammerne
genitive	pentagrams	pentagrammets	pentagrammers	pentagrammernes

Synonyms

• drudefod c

Further reading

• “pentagram” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛntaˌɣrɑm/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

pentagram n (plural pentagrammen, diminutive pentagrammetje n)

1. pentagram

   Synonym: pentakel

References

• “pentagram” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Friulian

Noun

pentagram m (plural pentagrams)

1. pentagram
2. (music) staff or stave

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πεντάγραμμον (pentágrammon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛnˈta.ɡram/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡram
• Syllabification: pen‧ta‧gram

Noun

pentagram m inan

1. (geometry) pentagram (five-pointed star polygon)
2. (occult) pentagram (magical symbol)

Declension

Declension of pentagram

	singular	plural
nominative	pentagram	pentagramy
genitive	pentagramu	pentagramów
dative	pentagramowi	pentagramom
accusative	pentagram	pentagramy
instrumental	pentagramem	pentagramami
locative	pentagramie	pentagramach
vocative	pentagramie	pentagramy

Derived terms

adjective

• pentagramowy

 

Further reading

• pentagram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pentagram in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpentaɡram]

Noun

pentagram m inan

1. (geometry) pentagram (five-pointed star polygon)
2. (occult) pentagram (magical symbol)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “pentagram”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

Noun

pentagram m inan

1. (geometry) pentagram (five-pointed star polygon)
2. (occult) pentagram (magical symbol)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “pentagram”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Noun

pentagram n

1. pentagram

Declension

Declension of pentagram

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	pentagram	pentagrams
	definite	pentagrammet	pentagrammets
plural	indefinite	pentagram	pentagrams
	definite	pentagrammen	pentagrammens

Further reading

• pentagram in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• matpengar