Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /antíɸonos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /antífonos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ãdífonos/

Adjective

ἀντίφωνος • ‎(antíphōnos) m, f ‎(neuter ἀντίφωνον); second declension

1. sounding in answer, concordant, as in the octave
   • Plato, Laws 812.D
   • Plato, Laws 717.B
   • Philo 2.485
   1. (with genitive) responsive to
      • Euripides, The Suppliants 800
      • Plutarch, Moralia 2.412.B
2. (neuter substantive) a concord in the octave
   • Aristotle, Problems 19.39.1, (Compare 19.16)
   1. (ecclesiastical) antiphon, anthem

Inflection

References

• ἀντίφωνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀντίφωνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀντίφωνος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀντίφωνος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • responsive idem, page 704.
• LSJ 8th edition