Ancient Greek

Noun

ἐπῐγρᾰφή • ‎(epigraphḗ) f ‎(genitive ἐπῐγρᾰφῆς); first declension

1. inscription
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.43
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Marvellous Things Heard 843b.17
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 15.8.1
   • BCH 6.6
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 5.9.3
   1. title of a work
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 3.9.3
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, How to Write History 30
   2. name of a ship
      • OGI 447
   3. ascription of a deed to its author, credit or honor of a thing
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.31.4
      • PSI 4.424.9
      • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 16.50
      • 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Caes. 322d
   4. insertion, interlineation in a document
      • PLond. 2.178.13
      • PRyl. 316.2
2. description of parties in pleadings
   • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 4.2
   1. registration of property for taxation
      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 17.41
   2. impost, tax
      • PSI 5.510.11
   3. assessment
      • POxy. 1445.8
   4. requisition
      • BCH 46.309

Declension

Derived terms

• ἐπῐγρᾰφῐκός ‎(epigraphikós)

Descendants

• English: epigraph
• Latin: epigraphē
• Spanish: epígrafe
• Portuguese: epígrafe

References

• ἐπιγραφή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐπιγραφή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἐπιγραφή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G1923”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • epitaph idem, page 279.
  • inscription idem, page 444.
  • registration idem, page 687.
  • superscription idem, page 839.