different between tentacle vs pentacle

English

Etymology

From New Latin tent?culum, from tent?. Doublet of tentaculum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?nt?k?l/, /?t?nt?k?l/

Noun

tentacle (plural tentacles)

1. An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
   • 1897, H. G. Wells, The Crystal Egg

     The body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles, immediately under the mouth.

   • 1936, H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time

     Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles.

2. (botany) One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
3. (figuratively) An insidious reach or influence.

4. (Britain, military, historical) An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link.
   • 2013, Dr Ian Gooderson, Air Power at the Battlefront (page 26)

     A joint RAF/Army staffed Air Support Control (ASC) headquarters was established at each army corps and each armoured division, linked to the forward brigades by a 'tentacle' equipped with two-way wireless telegraphy.

Synonyms

• tentaculum

Derived terms

• tentacular

Translations

Anagrams

• ectental, electant

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /t?n?ta.kl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ten?ta.kle/

Noun

tentacle m (plural tentacles)

1. tentacle

Related terms

• tentacular

Further reading

• “tentacle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tentacle” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tentacle” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tentacle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

English

Etymology

From Middle French pentacle, from Old French pentacol, from pent (“hangs”), a (“from”), and col (“neck”), thus "hangs from neck".

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pen?ta?cle
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?nt.?.kl?/

Noun

pentacle (plural pentacles)

1. A flat talisman, almost always disk-shaped, made of parchment, sheet metal, or other substance, marked with a magic symbol or symbols, used in magical evocation.
2. (Wicca) A pentagram, or a disk with a pentagram on it, especially one that is used for magical or mystical purposes.
3. (Wicca) A circumscribed pentagram.
4. A figure formed by two equilateral triangles intersecting regularly so as to form a six-pointed star.

Synonyms

• pentagram, pentalpha

Antonyms

• inverted pentagram

Meronyms

• pentagram, pentalpha

Translations

See also

• pentacle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Noun

pentacle m (plural pentacles)

1. pentacle

Further reading

• “pentacle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

Attested at least as early as 1547, from Old French pentacol.

Noun

pentacle m (plural pentacles)

1. pentacle (a talisman of parchment, sheet metal, or other substance, marked with a magic symbol or symbols, used in magical evocation)