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ἐπωνυμία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπωνυμία

Structure: ἐπωνυμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pw/numos

Sense

  1. a surname, name given after, a surname, the naming, a name for
  2. a name

Declension

First 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

  • σκόπει δέ, εἰ μὴ πάσαισ ταῖσ ἐπωνυμίαισ ταῖσ τοῦ θεοῦ πρέπουσαν εὑρήσεισ τὴν εἰκόνα· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 96:1)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ τοῖσδε, καίπερ οὖσι βασιλεῦσιν, εὐθὺσ ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ ἅμα ταῖσ ἄλλαισ ἐπωνυμίαισ, ἀλλὰ σὺν χρόνῳ μόλισ ἥδε, ὡσ ἐντελὴσ ἐπὶ μεγίστοισ δὴ μαρτυρία, ψηφίζεται. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 1 7:7)

Synonyms

  1. a surname

  2. a name

Related

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

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