Penta-

//pɛntə-// prefix

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Definitions

Prefix
  1. 1
    Five. morpheme

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quinquequint

Etymology

PIE word *pénkʷe 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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