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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From έπών, ἐποῦσᾰ, ἐπόν (épṓn, epoûsă, epón, “remaining”), the present participle of ἔπειμῐ (épeimĭ) (“remain, be left over”), + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.pûː.sí.aː/ → /eˈpuˈsi.a/ → /eˈpuˈsi.a/
Noun
ἐπουσῐ́ᾱ • (epousĭ́ā) f (genitive ἐπουσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- surplus
Inflection
References
- “ἐπουσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐπουσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἐπουσία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “ἐπουσία”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἐπουσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette