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epimythia

epimythia is the plural of epimythium.

Meaning of epimythium

Noun

epimythium (plural epimythia)

  1. A moral appended to the end of a story; an aftertale.
    • The fable is explained in an epimythium: "Indeed, what a man neither uses nor intends to use, […]"1997, Gert-Jan van Dijk, Ainoi, logoi, mythoi: fables in archaic, classical, and Hellenistic Greek

Questions about epimythia

What is epimythia the plural of?
Epimythia is the plural of epimythium.

Words near epimythia in the dictionary

  1. epimysial
  2. epimysiotomies
  3. epimysiotomy
  4. epimysium
  5. epimyth
  6. epimythia
  7. epimythium
  8. epimythiums
  9. epimyths
  10. epinaoi
  11. epinaos

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