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Definition: Pentagram |
PentagramNoun1. A star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pentagram" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Etymology: Pentagram \Pen"ta*gram\, noun. [from Greek expression, neut. of having five lines. See Penta-, and -gram.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: PentagramSynonym: pentacle (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A pentagram or pentacle is a five-pointed star. Pentagrams were used symbolically in ancient Greece and Babylonia. The Pentagram has magickal associations, and many people who practice pagan faiths wear them. Some Christians associate the symbol with Satanism, though most who use it are not Satanists.
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Some sources refer to the pentagram as the "star of Solomon".
A perfect pentagram is easiest drawn by drawing a perfect pentagon, joining the corners with lines and erasing the original pentagon. You may also extend the sides of the pentagon until they meet, obtaining a bigger pentagram.
The word "pentagram" comes from the Greek word πεντάγραμμον (pentagrammon), a noun form of πεντάγραμμος (pentagrammos), πεντέγραμμος (pentegrammos) a word meaning roughly "five-lined" or "five lines".
 Pentagram illustrating the golden mean hidden in it. |
The Pythagoreans called the pentagram ύγιεια Hugieia ("health" also the Greek god of health, Hygieia), and saw in it the pentagram a mathematical perfection: among other things, the pentagram hides the golden mean: when drawn with perfect angles each line is divided into several smaller segments, and if you divide the length of the longer segment with the shorter segment of any pair of segments you will get 1.618... In the illustration:
 Pentagram image from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's "Libri Tres de Occulta Philosophia" illustrating the golden symmetry of the human body. The signs on the perimeter are astrological. |
 Another pentagram from Agrippas book, this one has the Pythagorean letters inscribed around the circle. |
Satanists use pentagrams much the way they use the Christian cross: they turn it upside down either as a sign of disrespect, or just as a variant. They use the Pythagorean pentagram inscribed in a double circle, with the head of Baphomet inside the pentagram. The pythagorean Greek letters are replaced by the Hebrew letters forming the name Leviathan.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pentagram."
Crosswords: Pentagram |
| Non-English Usage: "Pentagram" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (pentacle), Hungarian (pentacle, pentagram, pentangle), Serbo-Croatian (pentacle), Swedish (pentacle, pentagram). |
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| "Pentagram" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Pentagram" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "pentagram": pentagram Pro. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pentagram | 957 | pentagram tribal | 6 |
pentagram picture | 70 | graphic pentagram | 6 |
pentagram pic | 36 | modem pentagram | 5 |
pentagram tattoo | 29 | background pentagram | 5 |
inverted pentagram | 21 | celtic pentagram | 5 |
pentagram wallpaper | 17 | buddy icon pentagram | 5 |
meaning pentagram | 17 | omen pentagram | 5 |
pentagram design | 16 | clipart pentagram | 5 |
satanic pentagram | 13 | charmed pentagram | 4 |
pentagram jewelry | 12 | gifs pentagram | 4 |
pentagram symbol | 9 | pentagram venus | 4 |
image pentagram | 9 | pentagram satan | 4 |
history pentagram | 9 | baphomet pentagram | 4 |
banishing lesser pentagram ritual | 8 | drawing pentagram | 4 |
art pentagram | 7 | pentagram t shirt | 4 |
pentagram necklace | 7 | pentagram pendant | 4 |
gif pentagram | 6 | pentagram ritual | 4 |
pentagram ring | 6 | necronomicon pentagram | 3 |
map pentagram washington | 6 | pentagram shirt | 3 |
pentagram wicca | 6 | draw pentagram | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "pentagram"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نجمة خماسية (pentacle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pentacle (pentacle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | pentagramm, drudenfuß. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πεντάγραμμα (stave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pentagram (pentacle, pentangle), ötágú csillag (pentacle, pentangle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pentagramma (staff, stave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "' , 星型 (star shape). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほしがた (star shape), "ぼう (burdock, Reverend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | rollage wheig-vaaragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entagrampay pentagonal (pentanol). (various references) pentagramã, stea în cinci colţuri. (various references) пентаграмма (pentacle). (various references) pentagram (pentacle). (various references) beş köşeli yıldız (pentacle). (various references) sao năm cánh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "pentagram": pentagrams. (additional references) | |
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"Pentagram" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Enneagram, panagram, Peltigera, pentogram, petagram, portagram. (additional references) | |
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| Words rhyming with "pentagram" (pronounced 'Pen"ta*gram'): Actinogram, Anemogram, Barogram, Cablegram, Cardiogram, Cartogram, Chronogram, Cryptogram, Dekagram, Digram, Epigram, hectogram, heliogram, hexagram, Hierogram, ideogram, Lettergram, Lipogram, logogram, Marconigram, Metergram, Myogram, Ondogram, Optogram, Oscillogram, Paragram, Parallelogram, Phlebogram, Phonogram, Photogram, Phraseogram, Polygram, program, Radiotelegram, Seismogram, spectrogram, Spectroheliogram, Sphenogram, Sphygmogram, Stereogram, tangram, Telautogram, telegram, Thermogram, Trangram, trigram. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-m-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: parament. | |
-2 letters: garment, gateman, magenta, magnate, manager, mantrap, margent, nametag, pageant, pangram, ramenta, rampage, rampant, regmata, tanager, tangram, trangam, trepang. | |
-3 letters: agnate, argent, arpent, engram, enrapt, entrap, garnet, german, magnet, manage, manger, mantra, marten, parang, parent, parget, partan, preman, ragman, ragmen, ramate, tampan, tamper, tarpan, trapan, trepan. | |
-4 letters: agape, agate, agent, ament, anear, anger. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-m-n-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: paramagnet, pentagrams. | |
+2 letters: paramagnets, pomegranate. | |
+3 letters: magnetograph, paramagnetic, permanganate, pomegranates, premalignant. | |
+4 letters: cinematograph, disparagement, magnetographs, paramagnetism, parametrizing, perambulating, permanganates, spermatogonia. | |
+5 letters: cinematographs, cinematography, disparagements, paramagnetisms, parameterizing, prearrangement, spermatogonial, suprasegmental. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6E 74 61 67 72 61 6D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -. - .- --. .-. .- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01100111 01110010 01100001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e n t a g r a m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006E 0074 0061 0067 0072 0061 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507180866773846779 |
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