ἔπος
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- something spoken: speech, story, song
- (in plural) epic poetry
- (the phrase) so to speak, roughly speaking, almost
- (the phrase) word by word
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Hellenic *wékʷos inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wékʷos, *wekʷ- (speak, sound, sound out, utter).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wekʷ-
Gloss
speak, sound, sound out, utter
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
話
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- epeolatry English
- epos English
- nepionic English
- orthoepy English
- advocātus Latin
- aequivoco Latin
- aequivocus Latin
- avocamentum Latin
- avocatio Latin
- avoco Latin
- convocatio Latin
- convocāre Latin
- convocātiōnem Latin
- epicus Latin
- epos Latin
- evocatio Latin
- evoco Latin
- fāns Latin
- invoco Latin
- invocāre Latin
- invocātiōnem Latin
- orthoepia Latin
- provocatorius Latin
- prōvocāre Latin
- prōvocātōrem Latin
- prōvocō Latin
- revocāre Latin
- univocus Latin
- vocalis Latin
- voco Latin
- vocābulum Latin
- vocābulārium Latin
- vocātiōnem Latin
- vocātīvus Latin
- vōcālem Latin
- āvocāre Latin
- ēvocāre Latin
- ēvocātiōnem Latin
- ūnivocus Latin
- Epopöe German
- Epos German
- Nationalepos German
- avocatorio Italian
- avvocatizio Italian
- biunivocità Italian
- biunivoco Italian
- epicamente Italian
- epicità Italian
- epopea Italian
- epos Italian
- equivocare Italian
- intervocalico Italian
- revoca Italian
- univocamente Italian
- univocità Italian
- vocabolarista Italian
- vocalico Italian
- vocare Italian
- vociante Italian
- vociare Italian
- vociatore Italian
- vocio Italian
- orthoépie French
- эпос Russian
- νήπιος Ancient Greek
- ποιέω Ancient Greek
- ἐξεῖπον Ancient Greek
- ἐπικός Ancient Greek
- ἐποποιία Ancient Greek
- ὀρθοέπεια Ancient Greek
- ὀρθός Ancient Greek
- *wekʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wekʷ-os Proto-Indo-European
- *wokʷtlom Proto-Indo-European
- *wokʷtos Proto-Indo-European
- *wékʷ-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *wékʷos Proto-Indo-European
- *wéwket, *h₁éwewkʷom Proto-Indo-European
- *wṓkʷs Proto-Indo-European
- episk Norwegian Bokmål
- epopeia Portuguese
- *gawahwaną Proto-Germanic
- *wōhmaz Proto-Germanic
- *wōhmijaną Proto-Germanic
- *wōhmô Proto-Germanic
- episk Norwegian Nynorsk
- वचस् Sanskrit
- वच् Sanskrit
- ainmfhocal Irish
- anfhocal Irish
- comhfhocal Irish
- crosfhocal Irish
- dordfhocal Irish
- focalbhá Irish
- focalbháiteach Irish
- foclach Irish
- foclachas Irish
- foclaíocht Irish
- focleolaí Irish
- focleolaíoch Irish
- focleolaíocht Irish
- foclóir Irish
- iarfhocal Irish
- réamhfhocal Irish
- epos Danish
- *veťь Proto-Slavic
- epopeia Catalan, Valencian
- वचन Hindi
- آواز Persian
- واک Persian
- Vācija Latvian
- vāci Latvian
- vāciete Latvian
- vācietis Latvian
- vācisks Latvian
- faclach Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- *kom-wep-s- Proto-Celtic
- *woxsman Proto-Celtic
- *wáćas Proto-Indo-Aryan
- komz Breton
- *wahā-čā̆rana- Proto-Iranian
- *wáčah Proto-Iranian
- *wékʷos Proto-Hellenic
- 𐬬𐬀𐬗𐬀𐬵 Avestan
- wak Tocharian A
- comps Middle Breton