Relating to or characteristic of victory songs and celebrations in ancient Greek tradition.
From Greek epinikion 'victory song' (epi- 'upon' + nike 'victory') + -an (adjectival suffix). An alternate form of epinicial with variant Greek transliteration.
The same word appears with different spellings—'epinicial' and 'epinikian'—because ancient Greek is written in a different alphabet, and there's more than one way to convert it to English! Scholars still debate which transliterations are 'correct.'
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