ἐπιστροφάδην

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐπιστροφή (epistrophḗ) +‎ -δην (-dēn).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pis.tro.pʰá.dɛːn/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.pis.troˈpʰa.de̝n/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.pis.troˈɸa.ðin/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.pis.troˈfa.ðin/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.pis.troˈfa.ðin/

Adverb

ἐπιστροφάδην • (epistrophádēn)

turning this way and that way, left and right
back and forth

Further reading

“ἐπιστροφάδην”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἐπιστροφάδην in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἐπιστροφάδην in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἐπιστροφάδην, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
“ἐπιστροφάδην”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Pape, Wilhelm (1914) “ἐπιστροφάδην”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎ (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn

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