pentasyllabos

• pentasyllabus
• pentasillabus, penthasillabus (Medieval Latin)

From Ancient Greek πεντᾰσῠ́λλᾰβος (pentăsŭ́llăbos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛn.taˈsyl.la.bɔs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pen̪.t̪aˈs̬il.la.bos]

pentasyllabos (neuter pentasyllabon); second-declension adjective (feminine forms identical to masculine forms, Greek-type)

1. (Late Latin) of five syllables, pentasyllabic
   • 376 CE – 409 CE, Mallius Theodorus, De metris 588.2–5:

     Pentasyllabos etiam quidam et hexasyllabos pedes, quos Graeci syzygias vocant, faciendos crediderunt, quorum nobis superflua et inanis opera repudianda est, cum eorum etiam pedum, quos supra enumeravimus, conplures ab omni metrica disciplina alieni sint.

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   • c. 701 CE, Beda Presbyter, Liber de arte metrica 242.6–7:

     hos sequuntur, ut dixi, pedes tetrasyllabi XVI, pentasyllabi XXXII, hexasyllabi LXIIII.

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   • 12th century, Bernardus Silvestris, Commentum super sex libros Eneidos Virgilii 124.16–18:

     ERIPEDEM : que ereos pedes habuit vel aeripedem, id est velocem, ut dicit Priscianus qui tetrasillabum posuit hic pro penthasillabo.

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Second-declension adjective (feminine forms identical to masculine forms, Greek-type).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛn.taˈsyl.la.boːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pen̪.t̪aˈs̬il.la.bos]

pentasyllabōs

1. masculine/feminine accusative plural of pentasyllabos

• “pentăsyllăbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “pentasyllabus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• pentăsyllăbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1138/3.
• pentasyllabos in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1557