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ἐπιφώνημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιφώνημα ἐπιφώνηματος

Structure: ἐπιφωνηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from e)pifwne/w

Sense

  1. a witty saying

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπιφώνημα ἐπιφωνήματε ἐπιφωνήματα
Genitive ἐπιφωνήματος ἐπιφωνημάτοιν ἐπιφωνημάτων
Dative ἐπιφωνήματι ἐπιφωνημάτοιν ἐπιφωνήμασιν*
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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