different between epochal vs epocha

English

Etymology

epoch +? -al

Adjective

epochal (comparative more epochal, superlative most epochal)

1. of or pertaining to an epoch.
2. highly important or significant; monumental, epoch-making.

Translations

Anagrams

• cephalo-

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ep???a?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

epochal (comparative epochaler, superlative am epochalsten)

1. epochal

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).