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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Analyzable as ἐπι- (epi-) + κλῆσις (klêsis) or as ἐπικαλέω (epikaléō) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.pí.klɛː.sis/ → /eˈpi.kli.sis/ → /eˈpi.kli.sis/
Noun
ἐπίκλησῐς • (epíklēsis) f (genitive ἐπικλήσεως); third declension
- surname
- invocation
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἐπίκλησις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἐπίκλησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐπίκλησις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἐπίκλησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.