πεντηκοστή

See also: Πεντηκοστή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Feminine substantive form of πεντηκοστός "fiftieth" (ἡμέρα being implied), from πεντήκοντα "fifty".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pen.tɛː.kos.tɛ̌ː/ → /pen.ti.kosˈti/ → /pen.di.kosˈti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pen.tɛː.kos.tɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pen.te̝.kosˈte̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pen.ti.kosˈti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pen.ti.kosˈti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pen.di.kosˈti/

Noun

πεντηκοστή • (pentēkostḗ) f (genitive πεντηκοστῆς); first declension

1. Pentecost - From the feast called Shavuot, which means "Festival of Weeks" and is the "fiftieth day" after Passover.

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πεντηκοστή; τῆς πεντηκοστῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πεντηκοστή hē pentēkostḗ	τὼ πεντηκοστᾱ́ tṑ pentēkostā́	αἱ πεντηκοσταί hai pentēkostaí
Genitive	τῆς πεντηκοστῆς tês pentēkostês	τοῖν πεντηκοσταῖν toîn pentēkostaîn	τῶν πεντηκοστῶν tôn pentēkostôn
Dative	τῇ πεντηκοστῇ têi pentēkostêi	τοῖν πεντηκοσταῖν toîn pentēkostaîn	ταῖς πεντηκοσταῖς taîs pentēkostaîs
Accusative	τὴν πεντηκοστήν tḕn pentēkostḗn	τὼ πεντηκοστᾱ́ tṑ pentēkostā́	τᾱ̀ς πεντηκοστᾱ́ς tā̀s pentēkostā́s
Vocative	πεντηκοστή pentēkostḗ	πεντηκοστᾱ́ pentēkostā́	πεντηκοσταί pentēkostaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Aramaic: פנטקוסטא
• Greek: Πεντηκοστή (Pentikostí)
• → Latin: Pentēcostē, pentēcostē
  • → Catalan: Pentecosta
  • → French: Pentecôte
    • → Turkish: pankot
  • → Galician: Pentecoste
  • → Hungarian: pünkösd
  • → Italian: Pentecoste
    • → Cimbrian: Pentekòste
  • → Middle Dutch: pinxter, pinxteren
    • Dutch: Pinksteren, Pinkster
      • Negerhollands: pinstu
      • → Lokono: Pinkstdaka
      • → English: Pinkster
      • → Papiamentu: pinkster (dated)
  • → Middle High German: phingesten
    • Cimbrian: finchésten
    • German: Pfingsten
    • Hunsrik: Pingste
    • Luxembourgish: Päischten
  • → Middle Low German: pinxten
    • → Danish: pinse
    • → Norwegian: pinse, pins
    • → Swedish: pingst
  • → Norman: Pentecôte
  • → Occitan: Pentacosta
  • → Old English: Pentecosten
    • Middle English: Pentecoste
      • English: Pentecost
        • → Japanese: ペンテコステ (Pentekosuto)
        • → Maori: Petekoha
      • Scots: Penthicost
  • → Old Saxon: pinkost
  • → Portuguese: Pentecoste, Pentecostes
    • → Indonesian: pentakosta
    • → Malayalam: പെന്തക്കൊസ്താ (pentakkostā) (see alt forms there)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: Caingis
  • → Spanish: Pentecostés, pentecostés
    • → Tagalog: Pentekostes
  • → West Frisian: Pinkster

Further reading

• “πεντηκοστή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πεντηκοστή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4005 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

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Greek

Adjective

πεντηκοστή • (pentikostí)

1. Nominative feminine singular form of πεντηκοστός (pentikostós).
2. Accusative feminine singular form of πεντηκοστός (pentikostós).
3. Vocative feminine singular form of πεντηκοστός (pentikostós).