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ἐπωνύμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπωνύμιος ἐπωνύμιᾱ ἐπωνύμιον

Structure: ἐπωνυμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for e)pw/numos

Sense

  1. called by the name of

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. called by the name of

Related

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

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