2. Noun. another name for the Greek letter digamma ¹
3. Noun. a term for the digamma, koppa, or sampi as a Greek numeral sign ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Episemon
1. a badge [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Episemon
Literary usage of Episemon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Being by Henry Wace (1880)
"Here, us well as in the preceding passages, episemon is used with special reference
to the character for six ; but Scaliger turns into Greek the phrase ..."
2. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"Then, again, without the episemon, reckoning the number of the letters, and adding
them up till we come to Eta, they bring out the ..."
3. The Writer's Desk Book: Being a Reference Volume Upon Questions of by William Dana Orcutt (1912)
"But of all the Greek ciphers the episemon fiav was most in use with the Latins;
it gradually assumed the form of G with a tail, for so it appears in a Latin ..."
4. Elements of Prophetical Interpretation by Joshua William Brooks (1841)
"The accidental circumstance of resemblance between the contraction J and the
episemon r has misled those who have adopted th is word, which is like using in ..."
5. The Literalist (1841)
"The accidental circumstance of resemblance between the contraction J and the
episemon r has misled those who have adopted this word, which is like using in ..."
6. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Being by Henry Wace (1880)
"Here, us well as in the preceding passages, episemon is used with special reference
to the character for six ; but Scaliger turns into Greek the phrase ..."
7. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"Then, again, without the episemon, reckoning the number of the letters, and adding
them up till we come to Eta, they bring out the ..."
8. The Writer's Desk Book: Being a Reference Volume Upon Questions of by William Dana Orcutt (1912)
"But of all the Greek ciphers the episemon fiav was most in use with the Latins;
it gradually assumed the form of G with a tail, for so it appears in a Latin ..."
9. Elements of Prophetical Interpretation by Joshua William Brooks (1841)
"The accidental circumstance of resemblance between the contraction J and the
episemon r has misled those who have adopted th is word, which is like using in ..."
10. The Literalist (1841)
"The accidental circumstance of resemblance between the contraction J and the
episemon r has misled those who have adopted this word, which is like using in ..."
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