penta-

Betekenis (Engels)

Five.

Sinonieme

penta

quinti-

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/pɛntə-/
Etimologie (Engels)

In summary

PIE word *pénkʷe Learned borrowing 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.

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