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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

  • καὶ τὰ μὲν δὴ κοινὰ τοῦ σώματοσ παντὸσ παθήματα, τῶν τ’ ἐπωνυμιῶν ὅσαι τοῖσ δρῶσιν αὐτὰ γεγόνασι, σχεδὸν εἴρηται· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 308:1)

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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