pentagram

English

pentagram

Alternative forms

• pentagramme (rare, archaic)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πεντάγραμμον (pentágrammon), noun form of the adjectives πεντάγραμμος (pentágrammos) and πεντέγραμμος (pentégrammos, “five-lined, having five lines”). Equivalent to penta + gram.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pen‧ta‧gram

Noun

pentagram (plural pentagrams)

1. The shape of a five-pointed star constructed of five intersecting lines meeting at the vertices, such that a central pentagon and five surrounding isosceles triangles are formed; often with magical connotations; a 5/2 (or 5/3) star polygon.
   • 1871, W. J. C. Miller (editor), Mathematical Questions and Solutions, Volume XV, page 47,

     Prove that the circles so belonging to the 6 pentagrams formed by 6 lines meet in a point, and so on; the series of theorems being interminable.

   • 2007, Christopher Penczak, The Temple of High Witchcraft: Ceremonies, Spheres, and the Witches' Qabalah, page 345,

     The passive pentagrams of spirit are drawn first in the quarters of the passive elements—water and earth—and likewise followed by the appropriate traditional elemental pentagram.

   • 2012, John Barnes, Gems of Geometry, page 59,

     Four figures involve 12 pentagrams arranged as in the faces of a dodecahedron with their vertices touching.

Synonyms

• pentacle
• pentalpha
• pentangle

Holonyms

• pentacle

Related terms

• pentagon
• hexagon
• hexagram

Translations

shape of five-pointed star

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五角星 (zh) (wǔjiǎoxīng)

• Danish: pentagram n
• Esperanto: pentagramo
• Finnish: pentagrammi (fi), viisikanta (fi)
• French: pentagramme (fr) m
• German: Pentagramm (de) n
• Greek: πεντάγραμμο (el) n (pentágrammo)

• Icelandic: fimmstirningur m, reglulegur fimmstirningur m
• Ido: pentagramo (io)
• Italian: pentagramma (it) m
• Portuguese: pentagrama (pt) m
• Russian: пентагра́мма (ru) f (pentagrámma)
• Swedish: pentagram (sv) n
• Turkish: pentagram (tr)
• Zazaki: pencagram

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Danish

Noun

pentagram n (singular definite pentagrammet, plural indefinite pentagrammer)

1. pentagram

Declension

Declension of pentagram

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pentagram	pentagrammet	pentagrammer	pentagrammerne
genitive	pentagrams	pentagrammets	pentagrammers	pentagrammernes

Synonyms

• drudefod c

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Swedish

Noun

pentagram n

1. pentagram

Declension

Declension of pentagram
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	pentagram	pentagrammet	pentagram	pentagrammen
Genitive	pentagrams	pentagrammets	pentagrams	pentagrammens