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ἐπιφόρημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιφόρημα ἐπιφόρηματος

Structure: ἐπιφορηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from e)pifore/w

Sense

  1. dishes served up besides or after, dessert

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • μετὰ δὲ ὁ μέν τισ ἐπὶ τὴν κατήλιφα ἀναρριχησάμενοσ ἐπιφόρημα ἐζήτει, ὁ δὲ ληκίνδα ἔπαιζεν, ἄλλοσ ἐρρικνοῦτο σὺν γέλωτι τὴν ὀσφῦν. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 8:4)
  • διὸ καὶ ἐπιφορήματα κληθῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 472)
  • Φιλύλλιοσ δ’ ἐν Φρεωρύχῳ φησὶν περὶ τῶν δευτέρων τραπεζῶν λέγων ἀμυγδάλια, καρύδι’, ἐπιφορήματα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 473)
  • ἅπερ Ἄρχιπποσ ἐν Ἡρακλεῖ Γαμοῦντι ἐπιφορήματα καλεῖ διὰ τούτων ἰτρίοισ ἐπιφορήμασὶ τ’ ἄλλοισ γέμουσα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 47 1:2)
  • "διὸ καὶ ἐπιφορήματα κληθῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 47 2:6)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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