ἐξαπίνης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐξάπινας (exápinas), ἐξαίφνης (exaíphnēs)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ek.sa.pí.nɛːs/ → /ek.saˈpi.nis/ → /ek.saˈpi.nis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ek.sa.pí.nɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ek.saˈpi.ne̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ek.saˈpi.nis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ek.saˈpi.nis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ek.saˈpi.nis/

Adverb

ἐξᾰπίνης • (exapínēs)

1. suddenly, all of a sudden

Further reading

• “ἐξαπίνης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἐξαπίνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐξαπίνης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἐξαπίνης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • suddenly idem, page 835.
  • unexpectedly idem, page 917.