"ephebic" meaning in English

See ephebic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more ephebic [comparative], most ephebic [superlative]
Etymology: From ephebe + -ic. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|ephebe|ic}} ephebe + -ic Head templates: {{en-adj}} ephebic (comparative more ephebic, superlative most ephebic)
  1. Pertaining to a young man or to early manhood, especially in Ancient Greek contexts. Categories (topical): Age, Ancient Greece Related terms: ephebe, ephebus, ephebophilic Translations (Translations): ephebisch (German)
    Sense id: en-ephebic-en-adj-LDOJPa~m Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ic

Download JSON data for ephebic meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ephebe",
        "3": "ic"
      },
      "expansion": "ephebe + -ic",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ephebe + -ic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ephebic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ephebic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ephebic (comparative more ephebic, superlative most ephebic)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ic",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Age",
          "orig": "en:Age",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Ancient Greece",
          "orig": "en:Ancient Greece",
          "parents": [
            "Ancient Europe",
            "Ancient Near East",
            "History of Greece",
            "Ancient history",
            "History of Europe",
            "Ancient Asia",
            "Greece",
            "History of Asia",
            "History",
            "Europe",
            "Asia",
            "All topics",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae",
          "text": "The ephebic androgyny of the high classic Apollo turned into effeminacy in Hellenistic art.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pertaining to a young man or to early manhood, especially in Ancient Greek contexts."
      ],
      "id": "en-ephebic-en-adj-LDOJPa~m",
      "links": [
        [
          "manhood",
          "manhood"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "ephebe"
        },
        {
          "word": "ephebus"
        },
        {
          "word": "ephebophilic"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "ephebisch"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ephebic"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ephebe",
        "3": "ic"
      },
      "expansion": "ephebe + -ic",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ephebe + -ic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ephebic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ephebic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ephebic (comparative more ephebic, superlative most ephebic)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ephebe"
    },
    {
      "word": "ephebus"
    },
    {
      "word": "ephebophilic"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ic",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss",
        "en:Age",
        "en:Ancient Greece"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae",
          "text": "The ephebic androgyny of the high classic Apollo turned into effeminacy in Hellenistic art.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pertaining to a young man or to early manhood, especially in Ancient Greek contexts."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "manhood",
          "manhood"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "ephebisch"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ephebic"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). 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.