# pentagram
## English
### Alternative forms

* pentagramme (rare, archaic)

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek πεντάγραμμον (pentágrammon), noun form of the adjectives πεντάγραμμος (pentágrammos) and πεντέγραμμος (pentégrammos, “five-lined, having five lines”). Equivalent to penta- +‎ -gram.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: pĕnʹ-tə-grăm, IPA: /ˈpɛn.tə.ɡɹæm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: pen‧ta‧gram
* Rhymes: -ɛntəɡɹæm

### Noun

pentagram (plural pentagrams)
* The shape of a five-pointed star constructed of five intersecting lines meeting at the vertices, such that a central pentagon and five surrounding isosceles triangles are formed; often with magical connotations; a 5/2 (or 5/3) star polygon.
** 1871, W. J. C. Miller, editor, Mathematical Questions and Solutions, volume XV, page 47:Prove that the circles so belonging to the 6 pentagrams formed by 6 lines meet in a point, and so on; the series of theorems being interminable.
** 2007, Christopher Penczak, The Temple of High Witchcraft: Ceremonies, Spheres, and the Witches' Qabalah‎, page 345:The passive pentagrams of spirit are drawn first in the quarters of the passive elements—water and earth—and likewise followed by the appropriate traditional elemental pentagram.
** 2012, John Barnes, Gems of Geometry‎, page 59:Four figures involve 12 pentagrams arranged as in the faces of a dodecahedron with their vertices touching.

#### Synonyms

* pentacle
* pentalpha
* pentangle

#### Holonyms

* pentacle

#### Derived terms

* inverted pentagram
* Pentagram

#### Related terms

* (star shape): hexagram (6-pointed), heptagram (7-pointed), octogram (8-pointed), nonagram (9-pointed), decagram (10-pointed)

#### Translations
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɛntaɡram]

### Noun

pentagram m inan
* (geometry) pentagram (five-pointed star polygon)
* (occult) pentagram (magical symbol)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “pentagram”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “pentagram”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “pentagram”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

## Danish
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

pentagram n (singular definite pentagrammet, plural indefinite pentagrammer)
* pentagram

#### Synonyms

* drudefod c

### Further reading

* “pentagram” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛntaˌɣrɑm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pentagram n (plural pentagrammen, diminutive pentagrammetje n)
* pentagram
    Synonym: pentakel

### References

* “pentagram” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

## Friulian
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

pentagram m (plural pentagrams)
* pentagram
* (music) staff or stave

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πεντάγραμμον (pentágrammon).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛnˈta.ɡram/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɡram
* Syllabification: pen‧ta‧gram

### Noun

pentagram m inan
* (geometry) pentagram (five-pointed star polygon)
* (occult) pentagram (magical symbol)

#### Derived terms

* pentagramowy

### Further reading

* pentagram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* pentagram in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpentaɡram]

### Noun

pentagram m inan
* (geometry) pentagram (five-pointed star polygon)
* (occult) pentagram (magical symbol)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “pentagram”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Slovene
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

pentagram m inan
* (geometry) pentagram (five-pointed star polygon)
* (occult) pentagram (magical symbol)

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

### Further reading

* “pentagram”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

pentagram n
* pentagram

#### Declension
### Further reading

* pentagram in Svensk ordbok.

### Anagrams

* matpengar