πέμπτος

See also: πεμπτός

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *penkʷtos, derived from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. Equivalent to πέντε (pénte, “five”) +‎ -τος (-tos, adjectival suffix), but the Proto-Hellenic labiovelar *kʷ developed into the labial π (p) instead of the dental consonant τ (t).

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**Ancient Greek ordinal numbers**
< δʹ	εʹ	ϝʹ >
Cardinal : πέντε (pénte) Ordinal : πέμπτος (pémptos) Adverbial : πεντάκις (pentákis)

πέμπτος • (pémptos) m (feminine πέμπτη, neuter πέμπτον); first/second declension

fifth
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.335
(feminine substantive)
1. the fifth day
  - 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 800, 801
2. via quintana, one of the lanes in the Roman camp
  - 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 6.30,6

First and second declension of πέμπτος; πέμπτη; πέμπτον (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	πέμπτος pémptos	πέμπτη pémptē	πέμπτον pémpton	πέμπτω pémptō	πέμπτᾱ pémptā	πέμπτω pémptō	πέμπτοι pémptoi	πέμπται pémptai	πέμπτᾰ pémpta
Genitive	πέμπτου pémptou	πέμπτης pémptēs	πέμπτου pémptou	πέμπτοιν pémptoin	πέμπταιν pémptain	πέμπτοιν pémptoin	πέμπτων pémptōn	πέμπτων pémptōn	πέμπτων pémptōn
Dative	πέμπτῳ pémptōi	πέμπτῃ pémptēi	πέμπτῳ pémptōi	πέμπτοιν pémptoin	πέμπταιν pémptain	πέμπτοιν pémptoin	πέμπτοις pémptois	πέμπταις pémptais	πέμπτοις pémptois
Accusative	πέμπτον pémpton	πέμπτην pémptēn	πέμπτον pémpton	πέμπτω pémptō	πέμπτᾱ pémptā	πέμπτω pémptō	πέμπτους pémptous	πέμπτᾱς pémptās	πέμπτᾰ pémpta
Vocative	πέμπτε pémpte	πέμπτη pémptē	πέμπτον pémpton	πέμπτω pémptō	πέμπτᾱ pémptā	πέμπτω pémptō	πέμπτοι pémptoi	πέμπται pémptai	πέμπτᾰ pémpta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“πέμπτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πέμπτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“πέμπτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
πέμπτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
πέμπτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“πέμπτος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3991 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fifth idem, page 318.

πέμπτος • (pémptos) m (feminine πέμπτη, neuter πέμπτο)