ἐπιφάνεια

From ἐπῐφᾰνής (epiphanḗs, “in view”) +‎ -ῐᾰ (-ia), from ἐπιφαίνω (epiphaínō, “I come into view”), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine, bring to light”).

ἐπῐφᾰ́νειᾰ • (epipháneia) f (genitive ἐπῐφᾰνείᾱς); first declension

1. appearance, manifestation (especially of a divine or royal figure)
2. surface, visible portion
   1. (geometry) surface
      • 350 BCE – 250 BCE, Euclid, Elements 1:

        ἐπιφάνεια δέ ἐστιν, ὃ μῆκος καὶ πλάτος μόνον ἔχει. ἐπιφανείας δὲ πέρατα γραμμαί.

        epipháneia dé estin, hò mêkos kaì plátos mónon ékhei. epiphaneías dè pérata grammaí.

        And a surface is that which has only length and width. And the extremities of a surface are lines.

3. appearance, pretense
4. fame, distinction
5. (in New Testament of the Bible) advent or manifestation of Christ
6. epiphany

• → Greek: επιφάνεια (epifáneia) (learned)
• → Latin: epiphanīa
  • Italian: Befana
  • → Italian: epifania
  • → Middle English: epiphanie
    • English: epiphany
  • → Occitan: epifania
  • → Old French: epyphanie
  • → Spanish: epifanía

• “ἐπιφάνεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐπιφάνεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐπιφάνεια 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
• G2015 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible