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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐγκολπίας (enkolpías).
Pronunciation
Noun
encolpiae m pl (genitive encolpiārum); first declension (plural only)
- winds that arise in a bay
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
References
- encolpiae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “encolpiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press