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pentecostys

pentecostys is the plural of pentecosty.

Meaning of pentecosty

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

Questions about pentecostys

What is pentecostys the plural of?
Pentecostys is the plural of pentecosty.

Words near pentecostys in the dictionary

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

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