An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English

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pentad. Number five. G. -TrevTas, TrevraS-.
Cf. triad, etc.
pentagram. See pentacle.
pentateuch. L., G. •TrcvTarcuxos, of five books, from G. Teu-xp'i, implement, in Late G.
book.
io67 Pentecost perch 1068 Pentecost. Church L., G. ircvTj/KocrT^ (so.
Tuiipa), fiftieth (day). G. name for Jewish Feast of Weeks, celebrated seven weeks after second day of Passover. Found in AS., but now usu. replaced by Whit Sunday. Cf. F. PentecSte, Gar. Pfingsten.
penthouse. Folk-etym. for earlier pentice, pentis,
... aphet. for F. appentis, from ap- pendre, to hang to; cf. a lean-to. Associa- tion with F. pente, slope, has introduced idea of sloping, whence pent-roof. The form penthouse is much earlier than diet, records. It occurs (in AF.) in John of Gaunt's Reg. (1372-76).
Item, quod appenticia sint ita sublimia quod homines potuerint faciliter sub illis ire et equitare (Liber Albus, 259).
appentis: the penthouse of a house (Cotg.).
pentagraph. See pantograph.
penultimate. From L. paene, almost, ultimus, last.


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