epenthetic (epenthetik)

[ In a language that permits the coexistence of three accentuations of one word,.. as Modern Greek does, the 1962 ephah, epha (e'fa), n . [Repr. Heb. ēphāh (cf. Coptic õipi , LGr. οἰφί, οἰφεί, LL. ephi), a mea- sure: perhaps of Egyptian origin: cf. Coptic ēpi , measure, op , õpi , count.) A Hebrew dry measure, equal to the liquid measure called a bath (which see). Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah , and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer. Ezek. xlv. 10, 11. ephemeris the typical genus of May-flies or day-flies of the family Ephemerid a, having three long caudal filaments. E. vulgata is a common European species; E. ( Leptophlebia ) cupid a is one of the commonest in the northeastern United States. See cut under day-fly. 3. A May-fly, day-fly, or shad-fly; an ephemerid. See Ephemeridæ and May - fly. The Ephemera , weak as it is individually, maintains itself in the world by its prolificacy. Brooks and ponds are richly populated with their young, and through the summer, when they come to maturity and take their flight, these delicate beings appear in immense numbers. They rise from the waters of our great inland lakes, fall a rapid prey to the waves, and are washed ashore in enormous quantities, their dead bodies forming windrows, comparable in extent with the sea-wrack of oceanic shores. They settle down in clouds in the streets of the lake cities, obscuring the street-lamps, and astonishing the pa er-by. Stand . Nat . Hist . , II. 152. ephebe (ef'ēb), n. [ έφηβος , a youth, ήβη , youth: see Hebe .] In Gr. antiq ., ephemera (e-fem'e-rä), n. Plural of ephem- particularly at Athens, a young man, the son of a citizen, between the ages of 18 and 20. At Ephemeræ (e-fem'e-re), n . pl . [NL., pl. of Athens, upon attaining the age of 18 each youth was subjected to an examination as to his physical development and his legal claims to citizenship, and received his first arms. During the next two years his education, both mental and physical, was taken in charge by the state, and conducted under the most rigid discipline, in conformity with a fixed course designed to prepare him to understand and to perform the duties of citizenship. Upon being admitted to take the sacred oath he received some of the citizen's privileges, and he became a full citizen after completing with honor his two years as an ephebe. Hence, in works on Greek art, etc., the name is applied to any youth, particularly if bearing arms, or otherwise shown to be of free estate. Also ephebos. vowel cannot be regarded as astonishing or abnormal. Amer. Jour. Philol., V. 511.