/ah'fee koh"meuhn/ , n. Judaism.
a piece of matzo broken off from the center one of the three matzoth set before the leader of a Seder: it is hidden by the leader and later searched for by the children, with the finder, usually the youngest, receiving a reward.
[ 1890-95; afikoymen aphigoman epikómion revel, n. use of neut. of epikómios of a revel, equiv. to epi- EPI- + kôm ( os ) revel + -ios adj. suffix ]