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Epinician vs Epinicial - What's the difference?

epinician | epinicial |

As adjectives the difference between epinician and epinicial

is that epinician is of, related to, or resembling a certain type of greek ode in honor of a victorious athlete while epinicial is (rare|obsolete) relating to victory.

As a noun epinician

is a greek ode in honor of a victorious athlete.

epinician

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, related to, or resembling a certain type of Greek ode in honor of a victorious athlete

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Greek ode in honor of a victorious athlete
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    See also

    * (Epinikion)

    epinicial

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (rare, obsolete) Relating to victory.
    • An epinicial song. — T. Warton.
    (Webster 1913)