Ancient Greek

Adjective

πέμπτος • ‎(pémptos) m ‎(feminine πέμπτη, neuter πέμπτον); first/second declension

1. (ordinal) fifth
   • Homer, Odyssey 9.335
2. (feminine substantive)
   1. the fifth day
      • Hesiod, Works and Days 800, 801
   2. via quintana, one of the lanes in the Roman camp
      • Polybius, The Histories 6.30,6

Declension

Descendants

• Greek: πέμπτος ‎(pémptos)

References

• πέμπτος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πέμπτος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πέμπτος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πέμπτος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «πέμπτος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πέμπτος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3991”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fifth idem, page 318.

Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek πέμπτος ‎(pémptos).

Adjective

πέμπτος • ‎(pémptos) m ‎(feminine πέμπτη, neuter πέμπτο)

1. fifth

Declension

Related terms

• πέντε n ‎(pénte, “five”)
• πέμπτη f ‎(pémpti, “fifth (gear etc)”)
• Πέμπτη f ‎(Pémpti, “Thursday”)

See also

• Greek number and measurement