Pinkster

noun

Pink·​ster

variants or Pinxter

ˈpiŋ(k)stə(r),

-ŋzt-

plural -s

: whitsuntide

Word History

Etymology

Dutch pinkster from Middle Dutch pinxter, alteration of pinxten; akin to Old Frisian pinxtera Whitsuntide, Old Saxon pinkoston, Middle High German pfingesten; all from a prehistoric continental West Germanic word borrowed from Gothic paintekuste Pentecost, from Greek pentēkostē

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