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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐπιμελής (epimelḗs) + -εια (-eia)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.pi.mé.leː.a/ → /e.piˈme.li.a/ → /e.piˈme.li.a/
Noun
ἐπῐμέλειᾰ • (epiméleia) f (genitive ἐπῐμελείᾱς); first declension
- care, attention
- (in the plural) cares, pains
- a public charge or commission
Declension
Further reading
- ἐπιμέλεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐπιμέλεια - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
- “ἐπιμέλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G1958 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.