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paralipomenon

  • /pæɹəlɪˈpɒmɪnɒn/

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Παραλειπομένων (Paraleipoménōn, “of things omitted”) παραλείπω (paraleípō, “I leave remaining”).

noun paralipomena

  1. Either of the Books of Chronicles in the Old Testament. There are other books, which seem of a different class, and are neither connected with the proceeding class, nor with each other; such is Job, such Tobias, and Esther, and Judith, and the two books of Machabees, and two of Esdras, which seem rather more to follow up that regular course of history, w
  2. plural normally An omission, especially one of a book, added later as a supplement. In a paralipomenon to the theses ‘On the Concept of History’ he writes: […]

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noun supplement

Françaisparalipomènes
DeutschPara­li­po­me­non

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@misc{paralipomenon_2026,
  title = {paralipomenon},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/paralipomenon},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}