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pentalogy

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A set of five works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as five individual works.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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History

Etymology

From penta- + -logy.

Across languages

Translations

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: خُمَاسِيَّة (ḵumāsiyya) — series of five related works of art
  • Czech: pentalogie — series of five related works of art
  • Danish: pentalogi — series of five related works of art
  • Esperanto: pentalogio — series of five related works of art
  • Finnish: pentalogia — series of five related works of art
  • French: pentalogie — series of five related works of art
  • West-Frisian: pentalogy — series of five related works of art
  • Galician: pentaloxía — series of five related works of art
  • German: Pentalogie — series of five related works of art
  • Hungarian: pentalógia — series of five related works of art
  • Japanese: 五部作 (gobusaku) — series of five related works of art
  • Kazakh: пенталогия (pentalogiä) — series of five related works of art
  • Lithuanian: pentalogija — series of five related works of art
  • Malay: pentalogi — series of five related works of art
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pentalogi — series of five related works of art
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: pentalogi — series of five related works of art
  • Occitan: pentalogia — series of five related works of art
  • Polish: pentalogia — series of five related works of art
  • Portuguese: pentalogia — series of five related works of art
  • Romanian: pentalogie — series of five related works of art
  • Russian: пентало́гия (pentalógija) — series of five related works of art
  • Serbo-Croatian: пентало̀гија — series of five related works of art
  • Serbo-Croatian: pentalògija — series of five related works of art
  • Slovak: pentalógia — series of five related works of art
  • Spanish: pentalogía — series of five related works of art
  • Swedish: pentalogi — series of five related works of art
  • Ukrainian: пенталогія (pentalohija) — series of five related works of art