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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of ἐπιλαμβάνω (epilambánō) + -ίᾱ (-íā)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.pi.lɛːp.sí.aː/ → /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/ → /e.pi.lipˈsi.a/
Noun
ἐπῐληψίᾱ • (epilēpsíā) f (genitive ἐπῐληψίᾱς); first declension
- Alternative form of ἐπίληψις (epílēpsis)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- ἐπιληψία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ἐπιληψία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἐπιληψία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press