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ἐπιφώνημα?

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: epiphōnēma

Principal Part: ἐπιφώνημα ἐπιφώνηματος

Structure: ἐπιφωνηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from ἐπιφωνέω

Sense

  1. a witty saying

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπιφώνημα ἐπιφωνήματε ἐπιφωνήματα
Genitive ἐπιφωνήματος ἐπιφωνημάτοιν ἐπιφωνημάτων
Dative ἐπιφωνήματι ἐπιφωνημάτοιν ἐπιφωνήμασι(ν)
Accusative ἐπιφώνημα ἐπιφωνήματε ἐπιφωνήματα
Vocative ἐπιφώνημα ἐπιφωνήματε ἐπιφωνήματα

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

  • οἷς ἐπιτίθησιν οὐδὲ μειρακίῳ προσῆκον ἐπιφώνημα: (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 48 4:7)
  • ἐγεννήθη δ οὖν Ἀλέξανδρος ἱσταμένου μηνὸς Ἑκατομβαιῶνος, ὃν Μακεδόνες Λῷον καλοῦσιν, ἕκτῃ, καθ ἣν ἡμέραν ὁ τῆς Ἐφεσίας Ἀρτέμιδος ἐνεπρήσθη νεώς ᾧ γ Ἡγησίας ὁ Μάγνης ἐπιπεφώνηκεν ἐπιφώνημα κατασβέσαι τὴν πυρκαϊὰν ἐκείνην ὑπὸ ψυχρίας δυνάμενον εἰκότως γὰρ ἔφη καταφλεχθῆναι τὸν νεών τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ἀσχολουμένης περὶ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου μαίωσιν. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 3 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a witty saying

Similar forms

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

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