different between epic vs epocha

English

Alternative forms

• epick (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??p.?k/
• Rhymes: -?p?k

Etymology 1

From Middle French épique, from Latin epicus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (epikós), from ???? (épos, “word, story”).

Noun

epic (plural epics)

1. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.

2. A series of events considered appropriate to an epic.

3. (computing) In software development, a large or extended user story.

Synonyms

• épopée
• epos

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

epic (comparative more epic, superlative most epic)

1. Of or relating to an epic.

   Synonym: epical

   • 1983, Jan Knappert, Epic Poetry in Swahili and other African Languages, p. 58:

     The main theme of epic poetry is, of course, the hero, his life, his greatness of character, his deeds and his death.

2. Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character

   • China's epic traffic jam "vanished" [title of article]

3. (colloquial, slang, informal) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.

   Synonyms: extraordinary, momentous, remarkable

Derived terms

• epically
• epicness
• epic fail

Translations

Etymology 2

From epi-, from Ancient Greek ??? (epí, “on top of”).

Adjective

epic (not comparable)

1. (category theory, of a morphism) That is an epimorphism.

Anagrams

• ECPI, pice

Danish

Etymology

From English epic, from Latin epicus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (epikós), from ???? (épos, “word, story”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?k/

Adjective

epic (neuter epic, plural and definite singular attributive epic)

1. (slang, informal) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary; extraordinary, momentous, great.

   Det var virkeligt epic.

Romanian

Etymology

From French épique, from Latin epicus.

Adjective

epic m or n (feminine singular epic?, masculine plural epici, feminine and neuter plural epice)

1. epic

Declension

English

Etymology

Medieval Latin epocha

Noun

epocha (plural epochas)

1. Obsolete form of epoch. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, Broadview 2002, p. 70:

     [T]hese dancers were the very men whose bravery formed the great epocha of French liberty; the heroes who demolished the towers of the Bastille, and whose fame will descend to the latest posterity.

Anagrams

• Phocea, cheapo, phocae

Czech

Noun

epocha f

1. epoch

Related terms

• epochální

See also

• éra
• období
• ?asy
• v?k

Further reading

• epocha in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• epocha in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (epokh?, “a check, cessation, stop, pause, epoch of a star, i.e., the point at which it seems to halt after reaching the highest, and generally the place of a star; hence, a historical epoch”), from ????? (epékh?, “I hold in, check”), from ???- (epi-, “upon”) + ??? (ékh?, “I have, hold”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.po.k?a/, [??p?k?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.po.ka/, [???p?k?]

Noun

epocha f (genitive epochae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) age, period, time, season, epoch (particular period of history)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: epocha, epoch
• ? German: Epoche

Portuguese

Noun

epocha f (plural epochas)

1. Obsolete spelling of época (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).