πεντάτευχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πεντα- (penta-, “five”) +‎ τεῦχος (teûkhos, “case of papyrus rolls”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pen.tá.teu̯.kʰos/ → /penˈta.teɸ.xos/ → /penˈda.tef.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pen.tá.teu̯.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /penˈta.tew.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /penˈta.teɸ.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /penˈta.tef.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /penˈda.tef.xos/

Adjective

πεντάτευχος • (pentáteukhos) m or f (neuter πεντάτευχον); second declension

1. consisting of five papyrus rolls or (more generally) five books
2. (nominalized, feminine, Judaism, Christianity) Pentateuch, Torah

Declension

Second declension of πεντᾰ́τευχος; πεντᾰ́τευχον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		πεντᾰ́τευχος pentáteukhos	πεντᾰ́τευχον pentáteukhon		πεντᾰτεύχω pentateúkhō	πεντᾰτεύχω pentateúkhō		πεντᾰ́τευχοι pentáteukhoi	πεντᾰ́τευχᾰ pentáteukha
Genitive		πεντᾰτεύχου pentateúkhou	πεντᾰτεύχου pentateúkhou		πεντᾰτεύχοιν pentateúkhoin	πεντᾰτεύχοιν pentateúkhoin		πεντᾰτεύχων pentateúkhōn	πεντᾰτεύχων pentateúkhōn
Dative		πεντᾰτεύχῳ pentateúkhōi	πεντᾰτεύχῳ pentateúkhōi		πεντᾰτεύχοιν pentateúkhoin	πεντᾰτεύχοιν pentateúkhoin		πεντᾰτεύχοις pentateúkhois	πεντᾰτεύχοις pentateúkhois
Accusative		πεντᾰ́τευχον pentáteukhon	πεντᾰ́τευχον pentáteukhon		πεντᾰτεύχω pentateúkhō	πεντᾰτεύχω pentateúkhō		πεντᾰτεύχους pentateúkhous	πεντᾰ́τευχᾰ pentáteukha
Vocative		πεντᾰ́τευχε pentáteukhe	πεντᾰ́τευχον pentáteukhon		πεντᾰτεύχω pentateúkhō	πεντᾰτεύχω pentateúkhō		πεντᾰ́τευχοι pentáteukhoi	πεντᾰ́τευχᾰ pentáteukha
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		πεντᾰτεύχως pentateúkhōs			πεντᾰτευχότερος pentateukhóteros			πεντᾰτευχότᾰτος pentateukhótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Πεντάτευχος (Pentátefchos)
• → Latin: Pentateuchus
  • → Asturian: Pentateucu
  • → Catalan: Pentateuc
  • → Dutch: Pentateuch
    • Afrikaans: Pentateug
    • → Indonesian: Pentateukh
  • → Finnish: pentateukki
  • → French: Pentateuque
  • → Galician: Pentateuco
  • → Italian: Pentateuco
  • → Polish: Pentateuch
  • → Portuguese: Pentateuco
  • → Romanian: Pentateuh
  • → Spanish: Pentateuco

Further reading

• πεντάτευχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πεντάτευχος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “πεντάτευχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πεντάτευχος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften