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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐπῐστρέφω (epistréphō) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.pis.tro.pʰɛ̌ː/ → /e.pis.troˈɸi/ → /e.pis.troˈfi/
Noun
ἐπῐστροφή • (epistrophḗ) f (genitive ἐπῐστροφῆς); first declension
- return, comeback
- attention, concentration, heed
- (philosophy) return to the source of Being
204 CE – 270 CE,
Plotinus,
Collected Works 5.3.6, (compare
Proclus, Elements of Theology 31):
- ἡ ἐπιστροφὴ πρὸς αὑτόν
- hē epistrophḕ pròs hautón
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ἐπιστροφή.
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἐπιστροφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐπιστροφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐπιστροφή 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- attention idem, page 51.
- care idem, page 113.
- concentration idem, page 154.
- heed idem, page 394.
- note idem, page 562.
- notice idem, page 562.
- observance idem, page 567.
- reaction idem, page 675.
- regard idem, page 686.
- revulsion idem, page 711.
- tacking idem, page 851.
- wheel idem, page 975.