πεντασυλλάβως

Ancient Greek

Etymology

πεντᾰσῠ́λλᾰβος (pentăsŭ́llăbos, “pentasyllabic”) +‎ -ως (-ōs, suffix forming adverbs)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pen.ta.syl.lá.bɔːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pen.ta.sylˈla.bos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pen.ta.sylˈla.βos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pen.ta.sylˈla.vos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pen.da.siˈla.vos/

Adverb

πεντᾰσῠλλᾰ́βως • (pentăsŭllắbōs)

(Byzantine) pentasyllabically (in five syllables)
- p. 1179, Eustathius Thessalonicensis, Commentarium in Dionysii periegetae Orbis descriptionem 431.180.24–26:
  διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ὁ Διονύσιος ἐκφωνήσας τὸ ι̅ πεντασυλλάβως λέγει αὐτὸν Ἀχελώϊον.
  dià toûto kaì ho Dionúsios ekphōnḗsas tò i̅ pentasullábōs légei autòn Akhelṓïon.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

“πεντασυλλάβως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press