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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εὖ (eû, “well”) + φήμη (phḗmē, “fame”) + -ος (-os).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ěu̯.pʰɛː.mos/ → /ˈeɸ.ɸi.mos/ → /ˈef.fi.mos/
Proper noun
Εὔφημος • (Eúphēmos) m (genitive Εὐφήμου); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Euphemus
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “Εὔφημος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010