penta-
prefix/pɛntə-/ · /pɛntæ-/
Etymology PIE word *pénkʷe Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe Proto-Hellenic *pénkʷe Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte) Ancient Greek πεντᾰ- (pentă-)lbor. English penta- Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πεντᾰ- (pentă-, “five”), from πέντε (pénte, “five”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. Compare Persian پنج, Northern Kurdish pênc, Ossetian фондз (fonʒ), Pashto پنځه (pindzə), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of five, which was inherited from Proto-Germanic.
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Morpheme Five.
- Related terms
- pentacle, pentagon, pentagram, pentahedron, pentalogy, pentameter, pentaprism, pentasyllabic, Pentateuch, pentathlete, pentathlon, pentatonic, pentomino, number