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penteconta-|pɛntɪkɒntə|
before a vowel -cont-, combining form, repr. Gr. πεντήκοντα fifty, in a few rare words. † penteˈcontarch [ad. Gr. πεντηκόνταρχος], a commander of fifty men. penteˈcontadrachm |-dræm| [ad. Gr. πεντηκοντάδραχµον], a Cyrenaic coin worth fifty drachmas. pentecontaˈglossal a. [Gr. γλῶσσα tongue], written in fifty languages. penteˈcontaˌlitre [ad. Gr. πεντηκοντάλιτρον], a Sicilian coin worth fifty litræ or ten drachmas.
1382Wyclif 1 Macc. iii. 55 After these thingus Judas ordeynyde duykis of the peple, tribunys [gloss that oon ledde a thousand], and centoriouns [or ledinge an hundrid], and pentacontarkes [leders of fyfty]. 1656Blount Glossogr., Pentecontarck, a Captain of fifty men. 1807Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxvi. 548 In some authors we find the word pentecontadrachm, or fifty drachms. 1846J. B. Lindsay (title) Pentecontaglossal Paternoster, or the Lord's Prayer in 50 Languages. 1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §132 The costly master-pieces of Sicilian engravers, the great Syracusan pentekontalitres at the head. |