penteconter

• pentaconter

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεντηκόντορος (pentēkóntoros, literally “fifty-oared”).

penteconter (plural penteconters)

1. (history, obsolete) A galley-type Grecian vessel with fifty oars.

   Coordinate terms: unireme/monoreme, bireme, trireme, quadrireme, quinquereme/pentere/pentereme, polyreme

• “penteconter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• penteconter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia