# Pentecoste
## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin Pentēcostē, from Ancient Greek πεντηκοστή (pentēkostḗ).

### Proper noun

Pentecoste f
* Pentecost, Whit Sunday

### Proper noun

Pentecoste m or f by sense
* a surname

#### Derived terms

* pentecostale

#### Descendants

* → Cimbrian: Pentekòste

### Further reading

* Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015-2024

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* pentēcostē

### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεντηκοστή (pentēkostḗ).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /pen.teːˈkos.teː/, [pɛn̪t̪eːˈkɔs̠t̪eː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /pen.teˈkos.te/, [pen̪t̪eˈkɔst̪e]

### Proper noun

Pentēcostē f sg (genitive Pentēcostēs); first declension
* (Christianity, Late Latin) Pentecost (Christian festival)

#### Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.
| Case | Singular |
| Nominative | Pentēcostē |
| Genitive | Pentēcostēs |
| Dative | Pentēcostae |
| Accusative | Pentēcostēn |
| Ablative | Pentēcostē |
| Vocative | Pentēcostē |

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: Pentecosta
* → French: Pentecôte
** → Turkish: pankot
* → Galician: Pentecoste
* → Hungarian: pünkösd
* → Italian: Pentecoste
** → Cimbrian: Pentekòste
* → Middle Dutch: pinxter, pinxteren
** Dutch: Pinksteren, Pinkster
*** Negerhollands: pinstu
*** → Lokono: Pinkstdaka
*** → English: Pinkster
*** → Papiamentu: pinkster (dated)
* → Middle High German: phingesten
** Cimbrian: finchésten
** German: Pfingsten
** Hunsrik: Pingste
** Luxembourgish: Päischten
* → Middle Low German: pinxten
** → Danish: pinse
** → Norwegian: pinse, pins
** → Swedish: pingst
* → Norman: Pentecôte
* → Occitan: Pentacosta
* → Old English: Pentecosten
** Middle English: Pentecoste
*** English: Pentecost
**** → Japanese: ペンテコステ (Pentekosuto)
**** → Maori: Petekoha
*** Scots: Penthicost
* → Old Saxon: pinkost
* → Portuguese: Pentecoste, Pentecostes
** → Indonesian: pentakosta
** → Malayalam: പെന്തക്കൊസ്താ (pentakkostā) (see alt forms there)
* → Scottish Gaelic: Caingis
* → Spanish: Pentecostés, pentecostés
** → Tagalog: Pentekostes
* → West Frisian: Pinkster

### References

* “Pentecoste”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* Pentecoste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* Pentcost, Pentecost, pentecoste, pentecostes, Pentecostes, pentycost, pentycoste
* (early ME) Pentecosten

### Etymology

Inherited from Old English Pentecosten, from Latin Pentecoste, from Ancient Greek πεντηκοστή (pentēkostḗ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛnt(ə)ˌkɔst(ə)/, /ˈpɛntɛˌkɔst(ə)/

### Proper noun

Pentecoste
* Pentecost (Christian holiday)
* Pentecost (specific day 49 days after Jesus' resurrection)
* Shavuot (Jewish holiday)

#### Descendants

* English: Pentecost
* Scots: Penthicost

#### References

* “pente-cost(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* Pentecostes

### Etymology

From Latin Pentēcostē, from Ancient Greek πεντηκοστή (pentēkostḗ).

### Proper noun

Pentecoste m
* Pentecost (Christian festival)

#### Related terms

* pentecostal

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: pentakosta
* → Malayalam: പെന്തക്കൊസ്താ (pentakkostā) (see alt forms there)