penta-

• pent- (before a vowel)

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). Doublet of five, which was inherited from Proto-Germanic.

• IPA^(key): /pɛntə-/, /pɛntæ-/

Greek number prefix

5	Previous:	tessara- tetra-
	Next:	hexa-

penta-

1. five

   Synonym: quinque-

• Thesaurus:number

• paten

From Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”).

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃.ta/

penta-

1. penta-

• “penta-”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

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

penta-

1. penta-

• pent-

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

penta-

1. penta-

• penta- in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• pènta- in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• penta- in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεντα- (penta-), combining form of πέντε (pénte, “five”). Doublet of cinco.

penta-

1. penta-

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

• IPA^(key): /penta/ [pẽn̪.t̪a]
• Syllabification: pen‧ta-

penta-

1. penta-

• “penta-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28