Ancient Greek

Noun

ἐφημερῐ́ς • ‎(ephēmerís) f ‎(genitive ἐφημερῐ́δος); third declension

1. diary, journal
2. military record, particularly as kept by Alexander the Great's staff or Julius Caesar's Commentāriī dē Bellō Gallō
   • 250–350 BC, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 10.434b
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alexander the Great 23
   • 86 CE – 160 CE, Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 7.25.1
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Julius Caesar 22
3. daybook, account book
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.829c
   • 3rd century AD, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 6.86
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.999a
4. (especially in plural) division of priests for the daily service in a temple or the service itself
   • 37 CE – 100 CE, Josephus, The Life of Flavius Josephus 1
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 7.14.7
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 12.6.1

Declension

Synonyms

• (division of priests): ἐφημερῐ́ᾱ ‎(ephēmeríā)

Descendants

• Latin: ephēmeris
  • English: ephemeris
  • French: éphéméride

References

• ἐφημερίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐφημερίς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἐφημερίς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette