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epimythiums

epimythiums 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 epimythiums

What is epimythiums the plural of?
Epimythiums is the plural of epimythium.

Words near epimythiums in the dictionary

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

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