COMPOUND: πεντήκοντα
CATEGORIZATION: Num [Num+Num]
MEANING: ‘fifty’ (< ‘five times ten’)
ETYMOLOGY: πέντε ‘five’ + num. root κοντα (< *dkomt, cfr. δέκα) ‘ten, a ten’
OCCURRENCE: Il. II, 509, 556, 685, 719; VI, 244; VIII, 563; XI, 678, 680, 748; XXIII, 147; XXIV, 495; Od. VIII, 35, 48; XIV, 15; XX, 49;
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: indecl.
HEADEDNESS: endocentric
CLASSIFICATION: determinative – karmadhāraya
NOTES: vowel lengthening -η- is ancient: cfr. skr. pancā-śát and arm. yi-sun.