Hypapante
noun
Hy·pa·pan·te
ˌēpəˌpänˈdē
plural -s
: a feast celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox Church on February 2 commemorating primarily the presentation of Jesus and his meeting Simeon and Anna in the temple and secondarily the purification of the Virgin Mary compare candlemas
Word History
Etymology
Late Latin or Late Greek; Late Latin hypapante, from Late Greek hypapantē, literally, meeting, from Greek hypapantan to meet, from hypo- + apantan to meet