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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐπιστέλλω (epistéllō, “to send a message”) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.pis.to.lɛ̌ː/ → /e.pis.toˈli/ → /e.pis.toˈli/
Noun
ἐπῐστολή • (epistolḗ) f (genitive ἐπῐστολῆς); first declension
- message, letter
- command, commission, injunction
- dying command, will (legal document)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἐπιστολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐπιστολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐπιστολή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G1992 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.