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pentecosty

pentecosty noun: a troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army.

Noun

pentecosty (plural pentecosties or pentecostys)

  1. (Ancient Greece) A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army.
    • There were seven companies in the field without counting the Sciritae, who numbered six hundred men: in each company there were four Pentecostyes, and in the Pentecosty four Enomoties.1874, Thucydides, translated by Richard Crawley, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 5

Forms of pentecosty

pluralpentecosties
pluralpentecostys

Origin of pentecosty

From Ancient Greek πεντηκοστύς (pentēkostús), from πεντήκοντα (pentḗkonta, “fifty”).

Questions about pentecosty

What does pentecosty mean?
Pentecosty means a troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army.
What part of speech is pentecosty?
Pentecosty is a noun.
What is the plural of pentecosty?
The plural of pentecosty is pentecosties.

Words near pentecosty in the dictionary

  1. Pentecostarion
  2. pentecoster
  3. pentecosters
  4. pentecosties
  5. Pentecosts
  6. pentecosty
  7. pentecostys
  8. pentegraph
  9. pentegraphs
  10. pentekosties
  11. pentekostys

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