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epimanikia

epimanikia is the plural of epimanikion.

Meaning of epimanikion

Noun

epimanikion (plural epimanikia)

  1. A cuff worn over the sticharion by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to a maniple in other Catholic churches.
    • a little band of marchers displays Greek Orthodox outfits, the rhason and sticharion, the epitrachelion and the epimanikia, the sakkos, the epigonation, the zone, the omophorion; they brandish icons and enkolpia, dikerotikera and dikanikion.1972, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, Agberg Ltd., published September 2000, page 232

Questions about epimanikia

What is epimanikia the plural of?
Epimanikia is the plural of epimanikion.

Words near epimanikia in the dictionary

  1. epiluminescence
  2. epiluminescent
  3. epimacular
  4. epimacus
  5. epimacuses
  6. epimanikia
  7. epimanikion
  8. epimarginal
  9. epimastigote
  10. epimastigotes
  11. epimatium

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