1382 Wyclif 1Macc. iii. 55After these thingus Judas ordeynyde duykis of the peple, tribunys , and centoriouns [ gloss that oon ledde a thousand] , and pentacontarkes [ or ledinge an hundrid] . [ leders of fyfty]
1656 Blount Glossogr.,Pentecontarck, a Captain of fifty men.
1807 Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxvi. 548In some authors we find the word pentecontadrachm, or fifty drachms.
1846 J. B. Lindsay ( title)Pentecontaglossal Paternoster, or the Lord's Prayer in 50 Languages.
1850 J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller'sAnc. Art §132The costly master-pieces of Sicilian engravers, the great Syracusan pentekontalitres at the head.
ORIGIN: Repr. Greek pentēkonta fifty.