Word or Phrase | English Ordinal | Full Reduction | Reverse Ordinal | Reverse Full Reduction |
Two Hundred and Fifty Nine | 259 | 115 | 335 | 110 |
Twin Peaks | 118 | 37 | 125 | 53 |
Kyle Charles Grant | 179 | 71 | 253 | 91 |
President #35 | 118 | 55 | 141 | 60 |
The Yellow Card Man | 179 | 71 | 253 | 82 |
(Micro)soft | 118 | 46 | 125 | 53 |
Laura Palmer | 118 | 46 | 179 | 71 |
The Matrix | 118 | 46 | 125 | 53 |
Hill Valley | 118 | 46 | 152 | 53 |
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Mask Up | 81 | 18 | 81 | 36 |
Clinton | 87 | 33 | 102 | 39 |
Trump TIME | 135 | 45 | 108 | 54 |
Bill Gates | 87 | 33 | 156 | 57 |
Bi den TIME | 81 | 45 | 162 | 54 |
Poke US | 87 | 24 | 75 | 30 |
Prince Harry | 135 | 72 | 162 | 63 |
O(micro)n | 87 | 42 | 102 | 39 |
Harry Dunning | 153 | 72 | 171 | 63 |
Janitor | 87 | 33 | 102 | 48 |
Diner | 50 | 32 | 85 | 31 |
Al’s | 32 | 5 | 49 | 22 |
Port Al | 82 | 28 | 80 | 35 |
Al’s Diner | 82 | 37 | 134 | 53 |
You Are A Slave, Neo | 179 | 62 | 226 | 82 |
Jesus Christ | 151 | 43 | 146 | 74 |
The Yellow Card | 151 | 61 | 200 | 65 |
Total insanity | 179 | 53 | 172 | 82 |
Man | 28 | 10 | 53 | 17 |
Saturn’s Rings | 179 | 53 | 145 | 82 |
Yellow Card | 118 | 46 | 152 | 53 |
Stranger Things | 179 | 71 | 199 | 82 |
Kyle Baldwin | 118 | 46 | 179 | 62 |
Dog Star Sirius | 179 | 62 | 172 | 91 |
This is Sirius | 179 | 62 | 145 | 91 |
Hell on Earth | 118 | 55 | 179 | 53 |
Dallas, Texas | 118 | 28 | 179 | 71 |
Hill | 41 | 23 | 67 | 22 |
Valley | 77 | 23 | 85 | 31 |
Marty | 77 | 23 | 58 | 31 |
Tannen | 68 | 23 | 94 | 31 |
McFly | 59 | 23 | 76 | 22 |
Biff | 23 | 23 | 85 | 22 |
Joker | 59 | 23 | 76 | 31 |
Donald | 50 | 23 | 112 | 31 |
Doc Brown | 94 | 40 | 122 | 41 |
Janus | 65 | 11 | 70 | 34 |
David Bowie | 94 | 49 | 176 | 59 |
January | 90 | 27 | 99 | 45 |
Dale Cooper | 94 | 49 | 176 | 50 |
December | 55 | 37 | 161 | 44 |
Jake Epping | 94 | 49 | 176 | 50 |
AnagRam | 55 | 28 | 134 | 44 |
Sadie Dunhill | 118 | 55 | 206 | 71 |
Santa | 55 | 10 | 80 | 35 |
Sadie Clayton | 128 | 47 | 196 | 70 |
Satan | 55 | 10 | 80 | 35 |
‘The’ Sun King? | 128 | 47 | 142 | 52 |
Say 10 | 46 | 10 | 37 | 19 |
Stephen King | 128 | 56 | 169 | 52 |
Nikola Tesla | 119 | 38 | 178 | 70 |
Human Sacrifice | 130 | 67 | 248 | 86 |
President #45 | 119 | 56 | 142 | 61 |
Tele Vision | 130 | 49 | 140 | 59 |
Agent Cooper | 119 | 56 | 178 | 52 |
industry | 130 | 40 | 86 | 50 |
Garland Briggs | 119 | 65 | 232 | 79 |
Robert Saget | 130 | 49 | 167 | 68 |
Stargate SG1 | 118 | 37 | 154 | 64 |
Flux Capacitor | 149 | 59 | 202 | 76 |
The Atomic Kid | 118 | 55 | 206 | 71 |
Swampscott | 149 | 32 | 121 | 58 |
Atomic Kid | 85 | 40 | 158 | 59 |
Risen Savior | 149 | 59 | 148 | 76 |
RaGnaroK | 85 | 40 | 131 | 50 |
Red Sox | 85 | 31 | 77 | 32 |
Matrix | 85 | 31 | 77 | 41 |
Boston | 85 | 22 | 77 | 32 |
‘The’ Twins? | 118 | 37 | 98 | 44 |
Clairvoyance | 128 | 56 | 196 | 70 |
‘The’ Others? | 118 | 46 | 125 | 44 |
Movie Screen | 128 | 56 | 169 | 61 |
Benjamin Linus | 143 | 53 | 208 | 82 |
Benjamin Horne | 128 | 65 | 223 | 70 |
Apollo | 71 | 26 | 91 | 28 |
Trumpet | 113 | 32 | 76 | 40 |
Wizard of Oz | 143 | 62 | 127 | 46 |
Salem | 50 | 14 | 85 | 31 |
‘The’ President? | 143 | 62 | 181 | 64 |
Jerusalem | 104 | 32 | 139 | 58 |
Doctor House | 143 | 53 | 154 | 55 |
Operation | 113 | 50 | 130 | 49 |
House of Cards | 134 | 53 | 190 | 64 |
Central intelligence | 188 | 89 | 325 | 109 |
Jordan Collier | 136 | 64 | 215 | 80 |
Bavarian illuminati | 188 | 80 | 298 | 127 |
Biff Tannen | 91 | 46 | 179 | 53 |
Crown of Thorns | 188 | 71 | 163 | 64 |
Marty McFly | 136 | 46 | 134 | 53 |
‘The’ Coronavirus? | 188 | 71 | 190 | 82 |
The Jesuits | 136 | 37 | 134 | 62 |
Coronavirus | 155 | 56 | 142 | 70 |
Society of Jesus | 191 | 56 | 187 | 79 |
Hocus Pocus | 140 | 41 | 130 | 49 |
Torus | 93 | 21 | 42 | 33 |
Hubie Hallo Ween | 140 | 68 | 238 | 67 |
Saturn | 93 | 21 | 69 | 42 |
The App rent ice | 140 | 68 | 211 | 67 |
Mandatory | 111 | 39 | 132 | 51 |
Forrest Gump | 158 | 59 | 139 | 58 |
Vaccination | 111 | 48 | 186 | 69 |
The Wizard of Oz | 176 | 77 | 175 | 58 |
Centers For Dis ease Control | 282 | 111 | 366 | 141 |
Donald John Trump | 185 | 68 | 220 | 76 |
It’s TIME to Save the World | 282 | 93 | 285 | 123 |
The Truman Show | 185 | 59 | 166 | 67 |
Eighty Eight Miles Per Hour | 282 | 138 | 339 | 114 |
Sheriff Truman | 158 | 68 | 193 | 76 |
One. Twenty One Gigawatts | 282 | 93 | 285 | 105 |
Back To The Future | 176 | 59 | 229 | 85 |
John Lennon | 121 | 49 | 149 | 41 |
Major Garland Briggs | 176 | 86 | 310 | 112 |
Desmond Hume | 121 | 49 | 176 | 50 |
Underwood | 119 | 47 | 124 | 43 |
Destination | 130 | 49 | 167 | 68 |
Walternate | 119 | 38 | 151 | 61 |
Danny Tanner | 130 | 49 | 167 | 59 |
Isis | 56 | 20 | 52 | 34 |
The Jesuit Cabal | 136 | 46 | 242 | 89 |
ice US | 57 | 21 | 78 | 33 |
Jeffrey Epstein | 163 | 73 | 215 | 71 |
Vaccine | 57 | 30 | 132 | 42 |
Jim Cunning Ham | 136 | 64 | 215 | 71 |
John 3:16 | 57 | 30 | 71 | 26 |
I Like To Watch | 136 | 55 | 188 | 71 |
Naked | 35 | 17 | 100 | 28 |
GeoengineeringWatch | 189 | 108 | 324 | 90 |
Lady Gag A | 58 | 31 | 158 | 41 |
Geoengineering | 134 | 89 | 244 | 64 |
Log Lady | 76 | 31 | 113 | 32 |
Ground Control To Major Tom | 316 | 109 | 305 | 125 |
Woods | 76 | 22 | 59 | 23 |
The End is the Beginning | 198 | 108 | 342 | 99 |
Wyman | 76 | 22 | 59 | 23 |
The Last Temptation of Christ | 316 | 109 | 359 | 143 |
Flight 77 | 76 | 49 | 114 | 42 |
Cash Register Synchronicity | 314 | 134 | 361 | 145 |
Flight 8:15 | 76 | 49 | 114 | 42 |
Push The Button | 189 | 54 | 162 | 63 |
Enter 7:7 | 76 | 40 | 87 | 42 |
Consumer Recreation Services | 316 | 127 | 386 | 161 |
Enter 8:15 | 76 | 40 | 87 | 42 |
Sarah Connor | 126 | 54 | 171 | 63 |
John Connor | 126 | 54 | 144 | 45 |
Fifty Four | 126 | 54 | 117 | 45 |
Dune | 44 | 17 | 64 | 19 |
Sun | 54 | 9 | 27 | 18 |
Mask | 44 | 8 | 64 | 28 |
Forty Four | 144 | 54 | 99 | 45 |
Corp oration | 144 | 63 | 153 | 63 |
Jesuit Order | 144 | 54 | 153 | 72 |
President Bi den | 144 | 72 | 234 | 81 |
Order of illuminati | 201 | 93 | 258 | 105 |
Masks | 63 | 9 | 72 | 36 |
illuminati | 120 | 48 | 150 | 69 |
Co V ID 19 | 63 | 36 | 92 | 38 |
President #46 | 120 | 57 | 143 | 62 |
‘The’ Bi ble? | 63 | 36 | 153 | 45 |
Bi den | 34 | 25 | 101 | 29 |
Bi ble | 30 | 21 | 105 | 33 |
Trump | 88 | 25 | 47 | 29 |
Bi bull | 58 | 22 | 104 | 41 |
U-ncle S-am | 88 | 25 | 128 | 47 |
Taurus | 100 | 19 | 62 | 44 |
Hoax US | 88 | 25 | 74 | 29 |
Solar Man | 93 | 30 | 123 | 51 |
Harry Potter | 164 | 65 | 133 | 61 |
Nazareth | 93 | 39 | 123 | 42 |
CRS | 40 | 13 | 41 | 23 |
Jack Shephard | 104 | 50 | 220 | 67 |
US | 40 | 4 | 14 | 14 |
7:7 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
CIA | 13 | 13 | 68 | 23 |
8:15 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
ID | 13 | 13 | 41 | 14 |
Dead | 14 | 14 | 94 | 22 |
JC | 13 | 4 | 41 | 14 |
9/11/2001 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
Joker Card | 85 | 40 | 158 | 59 |
Apollo eclipse | 140 | 59 | 211 | 67 |
Card | 26 | 17 | 82 | 28 |
Apocalypse | 113 | 41 | 157 | 49 |
Game | 26 | 17 | 82 | 19 |
The Shining | 113 | 59 | 157 | 49 |
Mega | 26 | 17 | 82 | 19 |
Kyle Grant | 113 | 41 | 130 | 49 |
Dog | 26 | 17 | 55 | 10 |
God’s Hooks | 113 | 41 | 130 | 40 |

El
Deity
ʼĒl is a Northwest Semitic word meaning “god” or “deity”, or referring to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities. A rarer form, ʼila, represents the predicate form in Old Akkadian and in Amorite. The word is derived from the Proto-Semitic *ʔil-, meaning “god”.
diminutive suffix (though in Modern English not always perceived as such), from Old French -el (fem. -elle, Modern French -el, -eau), from Latin -ellus, -ella, -ellum, diminutive suffix, from PIE *-olo-lo-, itself a double diminutive, from *-lo- (see -ule).

*el- Proto-Indo-European root meaning “elbow, forearm.” It forms all or part of: elbow;
ell (n.1) unit of measure; uilleann; ulna.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit anih “part of the leg above the knee;” Greek ōlenē “elbow;” Latin ulna, Armenian uln “shoulder;” Lithuanian alkūnė “elbow;” Old English eln “forearm.”
-le instrumental word-forming element, the usual modern form of -el (1), a suffix originally used in Old English to form agent nouns.
-el (1) instrumental word-forming element, expressing “appliance, tool,” from Old English -ol, -ul, -el, representing PIE *-lo- (see -ule). In modern English usually -le except after -n-.
el (n.) American English abbreviation of elevated railroad, first recorded 1906 in O. Henry. See L.

L
twelfth letter, Roman form of Greek lambda, which is from the Semitic lamed. The shape of the Roman letter is an early one in Greek, adopted in Italic before it was superseded in Greek by the inverted form which became the Greek lambda. In some words (ladder, lady, laughter, leap, listen, lid) it represents Old English hl-. As “building or extension in the shape of an L” from 1843. As an “alphabetic abbreviation” [OED] of elevated railway, from 1881 (compare el). The Three Ls in nautical navigation were “lead” (for sounding), “latitude” and “lookout.”
el Spanish article, from Latin ille “that” (see le).
-el (3) derivational suffix, also -le, used mostly with verbs but originally also with nouns, “often denoting diminutive, repetitive, or intensive actions or events” [The Middle English Compendium], from Old English. Compare brastlian alongside berstan (see burst); nestlian (see nestle) alongside nistan). It is likely also in wrestle, trample, draggle, struggle, twinkle, also noddle “to make frequent nods” (1733). New formations in Middle English might be native formations (jostle from joust) with this or borrowings from Dutch.
treadle (n.) “lever worked by foot,” c. 1400, from Old English tredel “step, stair, sole of the foot,” from tredan “to tread” (see tread (v.)) + instrumental suffix -el (1). Compare handle (n.).Related entries & more lapel (n.)part of a garment folded back and overlapping another, 1751 (implied in lapelled), from lap (n.2) + -el (2), diminutive suffix. Compare lappet.
nozzle (n.) mid-15c., noselle “socket on a candlestick,” diminutive of nose (n.); with -el (3). Meaning “small spout” is attested by 1680s.

Word or Phrase | English Ordinal | Full Reduction | Reverse Ordinal | Reverse Full Reduction |
El-ectromagne-tism | 179 | 71 | 253 | 91 |
El | 17 | 8 | 37 | 10 |
Gadzooks | 98 | 35 | 118 | 37 |
God | 26 | 17 | 55 | 10 |
Zeus | 71 | 17 | 37 | 19 |
FB i | 17 | 17 | 64 | 19 |
Catholic | 71 | 35 | 145 | 46 |
acatholic (adj.)
“non-Catholic,” 1809, from a- (3) + Catholic.

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a- (3)prefix meaning “not, without,” from Greek a-, an- “not” (the “alpha privative”), from PIE root *ne- “not” (source also of English un-).
In words from Greek, such as abysmal, adamant, amethyst; also partly nativized as a prefix of negation (asexual, amoral, agnostic). The ancient alpha privatum, denoting want or absence.
Greek also had an alpha copulativum, a- or ha-, expressing union or likeness, which is the a- expressing “together” in acolyte, acoustic, Adelphi, etc. It is from PIE root *sem- (1) “one; as one, together with.”
catholic (adj.) mid-14c., “of the doctrines of the ancient Church” (before the East/West schism), literally “universally accepted,” from French catholique, from Church Latin catholicus “universal, general,” from Greek katholikos, from phrase kath’ holou “on the whole, in general,” from kata “about” + genitive of holos “whole” (from PIE root *sol- “whole, well-kept”).
Medieval Latin catholicus was practically synonymous with Christian and meant “constituting or conforming to the church, its faith and organization” (as opposed to local sects or heresies). With capital C-, applied by Protestants to the Church in Rome c. 1554, after the Reformation began. General sense of “embracing all, universal” in English is from 1550s. Meaning “not narrow-minded or bigoted” is from 1580s. The Latin word was rendered in Old English as eallgeleaflic.


Nike
Greek goddess of victory (identified by the Romans with their Victoria), literally “victory, upper hand” (in battle, in contests, in court), probably connected with neikos “quarrel, strife,” neikein “to quarrel with,” a word of uncertain etymology and perhaps a pre-Greek word. As the name of a type of U.S. defensive surface-to-air missiles, attested from 1952. The brand of athletic shoes and apparel, based near Portland, Oregon, has been so known since 1971, named for the Greek goddess, having been founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports.
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fem. proper name, from Latin Berenice, from Macedonian Greek Berenike (classical Greek Pherenike), literally “bringer of victory,” from pherein “to bring” (from PIE root *bher- (1) “to carry”) + nikē “victory” (see Nike).
The constellation Berenice’s Hair (Coma Berenices) is from the story of the pilfered amber locks of the wife of Ptolemy Euergetes, king of Egypt, c. 248 B.C.E., which the queen cut off as an offering to Venus. The constellation features a dim but visible star cluster; Ptolemy (the astronomer) regarded it as the tuft of fur at the end of Leo’s tail, but German cartographer Caspar Vopel put it on his 1536 globe, and it endured. Berenice’s Hair is also sometimes incorrectly given as an old name of the star Canopus based on Holland’s mistranslation of Pliny in 1601.Eunice
fem. proper name, from Latinized form of Greek Eunikē, literally “victorious,” from eu “good, well” (see eu-) + nikē “victory” (see Nike).
- Nice
- Nicene
- Nicholas
- Nicodemus
Word or Phrase | English Ordinal | Full Reduction | Reverse Ordinal | Reverse Full Reduction |
Number Nineteen | 159 | 69 | 219 | 75 |
Baseball Boy | 96 | 33 | 201 | 66 |
Word or Phrase | English Ordinal | Full Reduction | Reverse Ordinal | Reverse Full Reduction |
JFK Jr. | 55 | 19 | 80 | 35 |
Magazine | 76 | 40 | 140 | 41 |
George | 57 | 39 | 105 | 24 |
McFly | 59 | 23 | 76 | 22 |
Deus ex Machina | 127 | 55 | 224 | 71 |
God in the Machine | 135 | 81 | 270 | 72 |
ex Machina | 78 | 42 | 165 | 48 |
Deus | 49 | 13 | 59 | 23 |
Machine | 53 | 35 | 136 | 37 |
Phoenix | 91 | 46 | 98 | 26 |
Chicken | 53 | 35 | 136 | 37 |
Sawyer | 91 | 28 | 71 | 35 |
Deity | 63 | 27 | 72 | 27 |
James Ford | 91 | 37 | 152 | 53 |
Demon | 51 | 24 | 84 | 21 |
Anthony Cooper | 169 | 70 | 182 | 56 |
Panopticon | 123 | 51 | 147 | 48 |
Warp Speed | 107 | 44 | 136 | 46 |
Saturn Day | 123 | 33 | 120 | 57 |
Trump Card | 114 | 42 | 129 | 57 |
Sabbath | 53 | 17 | 136 | 46 |
For Mary | 96 | 42 | 93 | 39 |
Call 911 | 39 | 21 | 91 | 37 |
Mary | 57 | 21 | 51 | 24 |
Society of Jesus | 191 | 56 | 187 | 79 |
Word or Phrase | English Ordinal | Full Reduction | Reverse Ordinal | Reverse Full Reduction |
Sleep | 57 | 21 | 78 | 24 |
Coronavirus | 155 | 56 | 142 | 70 |
Human | 57 | 21 | 78 | 24 |
The Observer | 137 | 56 | 160 | 61 |
Eclipse | 69 | 33 | 120 | 39 |
Donald is September | 181 | 73 | 278 | 98 |
Savior | 84 | 30 | 78 | 42 |
In the C Enter of IT All | 196 | 88 | 290 | 101 |
Death Star | 96 | 33 | 147 | 57 |
I Know WHO Donald is | 196 | 79 | 236 | 83 |
Dog Star | 84 | 30 | 105 | 42 |
Trump Tower | 169 | 52 | 101 | 56 |
Jesuit | 84 | 21 | 78 | 42 |
Event 201 | 69 | 24 | 72 | 27 |
Jorge Mario Bergoglio | 201 | 111 | 312 | 105 |
Robert Zemeckis | 169 | 70 | 209 | 83 |
Deoxyribonucleic Acid | 201 | 102 | 339 | 114 |
Transmission Complete | 259 | 88 | 281 | 119 |
DNA | 19 | 10 | 62 | 17 |
88 Masonic Home Road | 169 | 88 | 268 | 97 |
19:63 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 |
Monday | 72 | 27 | 90 | 27 |
Co V ID 19 | 63 | 36 | 92 | 38 |
Money | 72 | 27 | 63 | 18 |
El-even | 63 | 27 | 99 | 27 |
Word or Phrase | English Ordinal | Full Reduction | Reverse Ordinal | Reverse Full Reduction |
Mundane | 72 | 27 | 117 | 36 |
Twenty Two | 165 | 39 | 78 | 42 |
World | 72 | 27 | 63 | 27 |
Sixty Three | 153 | 54 | 117 | 54 |
Cooper | 72 | 36 | 90 | 27 |
Forty Nine | 126 | 54 | 117 | 45 |
Black Lodge | 72 | 36 | 198 | 54 |
Mr. Jack Pots | 126 | 36 | 144 | 63 |
R eyes | 72 | 27 | 63 | 27 |
4+8+15+16+23+42 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 |
Hugo | 51 | 24 | 57 | 12 |
Phillip Jeffries | 160 | 88 | 245 | 83 |
Cons piracy | 123 | 51 | 147 | 57 |
The Sleeper Has Awakened | 205 | 88 | 362 | 110 |
Queen El-izabeth | 150 | 69 | 228 | 66 |
We Live in Side A Dream | 178 | 88 | 308 | 110 |
El-izabeth Keen | 123 | 60 | 228 | 66 |
Clarity | 88 | 34 | 101 | 47 |
Eighty Eight | 123 | 69 | 174 | 48 |
Vision | 88 | 34 | 74 | 38 |
Hugo R eyes | 123 | 51 | 120 | 39 |
Gigawatt | 88 | 34 | 128 | 47 |
El-ectrical | 88 | 43 | 182 | 65 |


















































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EveRything | 133 | 61 | 137 | 47 |
Forty Eight | 133 | 61 | 137 | 47 |
Live | 48 | 21 | 60 | 24 |
Evil | 48 | 21 | 60 | 24 |
illuminati | 120 | 48 | 150 | 69 |
Six Six Six | 156 | 48 | 87 | 60 |
Tell A Vision | 138 | 48 | 159 | 69 |
Donald Trump | 138 | 48 | 159 | 60 |
illuminati (n.)
1590s, plural of Latin illuminatus “enlightened” (in figurative sense), past participle of illuminare “light up, make light, illuminate” (see illumination). Originally a name applied to a 16c. Spanish sect (the Alumbrados), then to other sects on the continent; since 1797 used as a translation of German Illuminaten, name of a secret society founded 1776 in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, (repressed there 1785) and holding deistic and republican principles; hence used generally of free-thinkers and sarcastically of those professing intellectual enlightenment (1816). Related: Illuminatism; illuminatist.
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illumination (n.)late 14c., “spiritual enlightenment,” from Late Latin illuminationem (nominative illuminatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin illuminare “to throw into light, make bright, light up;” figuratively, in rhetoric, “to set off, illustrate,” from assimilated form of in- “in, into” (from PIE root *en “in”) + lumen (genitive luminis) “light,” from suffixed form of PIE root *leuk- “light, brightness.” Meaning “action of lighting” in English is from 1560s; sense of “intellectual enlightenment” is from 1630s.
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epiphany (n.)
early 14c., “festival of the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles” (celebrated Jan. 6; usually with a capital -E-), from Old French epiphanie, from Late Latin epiphania, neuter plural (taken as feminine singular), from late Greek epiphaneia “manifestation, striking appearance, festival held in commemoration of the appearance of a god at some particular place” (in New Testament, “advent or manifestation of Christ”), from epiphanes “manifest, conspicuous,” from epiphainein “to manifest, display, show off; come suddenly into view,” from epi “on, to” (see epi-) + phainein “to show” (from PIE root *bha- (1) “to shine”). Of divine beings other than Christ, first recorded 1660s; general literary sense of “any manifestation or revelation” appeared 1840, first in De Quincey.
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before vowels reduced to ep-, before aspirated vowels eph-, word-forming element meaning “on, upon, above,” also “in addition to; toward, among,” from Greek epi “upon, at, close upon (in space or time), on the occasion of, in addition,” also “after,” from PIE *epi, *opi “near, at, against” (source also of Sanskrit api “also, besides;” Avestan aipi “also, to, toward;” Armenian ev “also, and;” Latin ob “toward, against, in the way of;” Oscan op, Greek opi- “behind;” Hittite appizzis “younger;” Lithuanian ap- “about, near;” Old Church Slavonic ob “on”). A productive prefix in Greek; also used in modern scientific compounds (such as epicenter).
*bhā-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to shine.”
It forms all or part of: aphotic; bandolier; banner; banneret; beacon; beckon; buoy; diaphanous; emphasis; epiphany; fantasia; fantasy; hierophant; pant (v.); -phane; phanero-; phantasm; phantasmagoria; phantom; phase; phene; phenetic; pheno-; phenology; phenomenon; phenyl; photic; photo-; photocopy; photogenic; photograph; photon; photosynthesis; phosphorus; phaeton; sycophant; theophany; tiffany; tryptophan.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit bhati “shines, glitters;” Greek phainein “bring to light, make appear,” phantazein “make visible, display;” Old Irish ban “white, light, ray of light.”
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