pentathlon

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An ancient athletics discipline, featuring five events: stadion, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus
  2. Ellipsis of women's pentathlon (“a 20th-century athletics discipline for women, the women's counterpart of the men's decathlon, the predecessor to the women's heptathlon, featuring five events: hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, and a run”). abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  3. Ellipsis of modern pentathlon, a discipline with five events based on late-19th century basic military skills. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — In the end, why not be happy with both, with the BMXes and the pentathlons, with the swans of synchro and the Quasimodos of wrestling? Sweet.

词形变化

pentathlons plural pentathla plural

词汇关系

衍生词
snow pentathlon
相关词
pentathlete

词源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πένταθλον (péntathlon), from πέντε (pénte, “five”) + ἆθλον (âthlon, “contest”). By surface analysis, penta- + -athlon.
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