Word.ws English Dictionary

perispomeni

perispomeni is the alternative form of perispomene.

Meaning of perispomene

Noun

perispomene

  1. The circumflex ⟨◌͂⟩, a diacritical mark used in the polytonic script of Greek.
    • The perispomene (῀) is an accent like any other, on syllables originally long.1956, Ary H. Crooson, “Greek at a Glance”, in Constantine Divry, editor, Divry’s Guide to Greece and Information Manual, New York, N.Y.: D. C. Divry, Inc., →OCLC, part I (Modern Greece, General...

Origin of perispomeni

From Greek περισπωμένη (perispoméni).

Questions about perispomeni

What is perispomeni the alternative form of?
Perispomeni is the alternative form of perispomene.

Words near perispomeni in the dictionary

  1. perisplenic
  2. perisplenitis
  3. perispome
  4. perispomena
  5. perispomene
  6. perispomeni
  7. perispomenon
  8. perispomes
  9. perispore
  10. perispores
  11. perisporia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: perispomeni (page history and authors); perispomene (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “perispomeni.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/perispomeni. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.