ἐπιστροφάδην
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐπιστροφή (epistrophḗ) + -δην (-dēn).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.pis.tro.pʰá.dɛːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.pis.troˈpʰa.de̝n/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.pis.troˈɸa.ðin/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.pis.troˈfa.ðin/
- (15th 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 [Logeion] 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[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn