Where does “pentad” come from?
pentad (English) comes from French pintade, from Portuguese pintada, from Portuguese pintado, from Portuguese pintar, from Old Portuguese pintar, from Vulgar Latin pinctare, from Latin pictāre, from Latin pingere — to attach.
pentad (English): A group or series of five things; A mean average...
Definitions
- A group or series of five things; A mean average...
Ancestry of “pentad”, step by step
pentad traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French pintade
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | pintade | guinea fowl |
| 2 | Portuguese | pintada | feminine singular of pintado; guinea fowl |
| 3 | Portuguese | pintado | spotted |
| 4 | Portuguese | pintar | to paint |
| 5 | Old Portuguese | pintar | — |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | pinctare | — |
| 7 | Latin | pictāre | paint |
| 8 | Latin | pingere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | pingo | I decorate or embellish; I paint, tint or colour;... |
| 10 | Latin | pango | I fasten, fix, set, especially drive, sink, force... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | pangō | to fasten, to fix |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₂ǵ- | to attach |
via Ancient Greek πεντάς
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancient Greek | πεντάς | the number five; a group of five, pentad |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | -ᾰ́ς | group of |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | -ónts | Derives nouns denoting body parts |
| 4 | Hungarian | önt | to pour; to cast; accusative singular of ön |
| 5 | Hungarian | ön | you |
| 6 | Hungarian | ön- | self- |
| 7 | Turkish | ön | front |
| 8 | Ottoman Turkish | اوك | voice (of human or animal); sound |
| 9 | Proto-Turkic | ǖn | sound, voice |