"ἐπιστροφή" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Ancient Greek]

IPA: /e.pis.tro.pʰɛ̌ː/, /e.pis.troˈɸi/, /e.pis.troˈfi/, /e.pis.tro.pʰɛ̌ː/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /e.pis.troˈpʰe̝/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /e.pis.troˈɸi/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /e.pis.troˈfi/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /e.pis.troˈfi/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From ἐπῐστρέφω (epĭstréphō) + -η (-ē). Etymology templates: {{af|grc|ἐπῐστρέφω|-η|id2=o-grade}} ἐπῐστρέφω (epĭstréphō) + -η (-ē) Head templates: {{grc-noun|ἐπῐστροφῆς|f|first|head=ἐπῐστροφή}} ἐπῐστροφή • (epĭstrophḗ) f (genitive ἐπῐστροφῆς); first declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|ἐπῐστροφή|ης}} Forms: ἐπῐστροφή [canonical], epĭstrophḗ [romanization], ἐπῐστροφῆς [genitive], Attic declension-1 [table-tags], ἡ ἐπῐστροφή [nominative, singular], τὼ ἐπῐστροφᾱ́ [dual, nominative], αἱ ἐπῐστροφαί [nominative, plural], τῆς ἐπῐστροφῆς [genitive, singular], τοῖν ἐπῐστροφαῖν [dual, genitive], τῶν ἐπῐστροφῶν [genitive, plural], τῇ ἐπῐστροφῇ [dative, singular], τοῖν ἐπῐστροφαῖν [dative, dual], ταῖς ἐπῐστροφαῖς [dative, plural], τὴν ἐπῐστροφήν [accusative, singular], τὼ ἐπῐστροφᾱ́ [accusative, dual], τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐστροφᾱ́ς [accusative, plural], ἐπῐστροφή [singular, vocative], ἐπῐστροφᾱ́ [dual, vocative], ἐπῐστροφαί [plural, vocative]
  1. return, comeback
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  2. attention, concentration, heed
    Sense id: en-ἐπιστροφή-grc-noun-nbzXY1iZ Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -η (o-grade), Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 22 43 36 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension: 18 47 34 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -η (o-grade): 21 47 31 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 38 30 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 39 35 26
  3. (philosophy) return to the source of Being Categories (topical): Philosophy
    Sense id: en-ἐπιστροφή-grc-noun-GBujHaFA Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 22 43 36 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 38 30 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 39 35 26 Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.