πένταθλον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πεντάεθλον (pentáethlon) — Ionic
Etymology
From πεντα- (penta-, “five”) + ἆθλον (âthlon, “contest”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pén.taː.tʰlon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpen.ta.tʰlon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpen.ta.θlon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpen.ta.θlon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpen.da.θlon/
Noun
πέντᾱθλον • (péntāthlon) n (genitive πεντᾱ́θλου); second declension
- the contest of the five exercises, pentathlon
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ πέντᾱθλον tò péntāthlon |
τὼ πεντᾱ́θλω tṑ pentā́thlō |
τᾰ̀ πέντᾱθλᾰ tằ péntāthlă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πεντᾱ́θλου toû pentā́thlou |
τοῖν πεντᾱ́θλοιν toîn pentā́thloin |
τῶν πεντᾱ́θλων tôn pentā́thlōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πεντᾱ́θλῳ tōî pentā́thlōi |
τοῖν πεντᾱ́θλοιν toîn pentā́thloin |
τοῖς πεντᾱ́θλοις toîs pentā́thlois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ πέντᾱθλον tò péntāthlon |
τὼ πεντᾱ́θλω tṑ pentā́thlō |
τᾰ̀ πέντᾱθλᾰ tằ péntāthlă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πέντᾱθλον péntāthlon |
πεντᾱ́θλω pentā́thlō |
πέντᾱθλᾰ péntāthlă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: петобой (petoboj) (calque)
- → Catalan: pentatló
- → Czech: pentatlon
- → Czech: pětiboj (calque)
- → Dutch: pentatlon
- → English: pentathlon
- → Japanese: ペンタスロン (pentasuron)
- → Finnish: viisiottelu (calque)
- → French: pentathlon
- → Galician: péntatlon
- → German: Pentathlon
- → German: Fünfkampf (calque)
- → Indonesian: pancalomba (calque)
- → Italian: pentathlon
- → Macedonian: пентатлон (pentatlon)
- → Macedonian: петобој (petoboj) (calque)
- → Portuguese: pentatlo
- → Romanian: pentatlon
- → Russian: пятибо́рье (pjatibórʹje) (calque)
- → Spanish: pentatlón
- → Ukrainian: п'ятибо́рство (pʺjatybórstvo) (calque)
Further reading
- πένταθλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πένταθλον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “πένταθλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press