penteconter
Sign in to savethumb thumb|Coinage of Tennes, king of [[Sidon, dated 351/0 BC. Phoenician pentekonter sailing left. Date above (here faint), waves below. King of Persia standing right, holding up lion by lock of mane; Aramaic T’ between.]] The penteconter (alt. spelling pentekonter, pentaconter, pentecontor or pentekontor; , pentēkónteros, "fifty-oared"), plural penteconters, was an ancient Greek galley in use since the archaic period.
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thumb thumb|Coinage of Tennes, king of [[Sidon, dated 351/0 BC. Phoenician pentekonter sailing left. Date above (here faint), waves below. King of Persia standing right, holding up lion by lock of mane; Aramaic T’ between.]] The penteconter (alt. spelling pentekonter, pentaconter, pentecontor or pentekontor; , pentēkónteros, "fifty-oared"), plural penteconters, was an ancient Greek galley in use since the archaic period.
In an alternative meaning, the term was also used for a military commander of fifty men in ancient Greece.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “penteconter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.