different between epsilon vs orthoepy

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ? ????? (è psilón, “simple ?”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?sa?.l?n/, /??p.s??l?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p.s??l?n/, /??p.s?.l?n/

Noun

epsilon (countable and uncountable, plural epsilons or epsila)

1. The name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ? or ?, preceded by delta (?, ?) and followed by zeta (?, ?).
2. (phonetics) In IPA, the phonetic symbol ? that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
3. (mathematics) An arbitrarily small quantity.
4. (computing, colloquial) Something negligible or insignificant.

   Yes, we have to convert all the symbol names to upper case at startup, but that’s epsilon.

5. (finance) The percentage change in an option value with respect to the underlying dividend yield.

Hypernyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

Translations

Anagrams

• pile ons, pile-ons, piles on, pilones, pinoles, sinople

Czech

Noun

epsilon n

1. epsilon

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (epsilón, “the letter ?”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??psil?n/
• Hyphenation: ep?si?lon

Noun

epsilon m or f (plural epsilons, diminutive epsilonnetje n)

1. The name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet.
2. (phonetics) The IPA symbol that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
3. (mathematics) An arbitrarily small quantity.

Finnish

(index ep)

Etymology

< Ancient Greek ?????? (èpsilón).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?epsilon/, [?e?ps?ilo?n]
• Rhymes: -epsilon
• Syllabification: ep?si?lon

Noun

epsilon

1. epsilon (Greek letter)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p.si.l??/, /?p.si.l?n/

Noun

epsilon m (plural epsilon)

1. epsilon (Greek letter)

Further reading

• “epsilon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• épilons, pelions, sinople

Italian

Noun

epsilon m or f (invariable)

1. epsilon (Greek letter)

Anagrams

• nespoli, spelino, splenio

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?psilo?n/
• Hyphenation: e?psi?lon

Noun

èpsil?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. epsilon, the Greek letter ?, ?

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• orthoëpy
• orthoepie, orthöepy (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (orthoépeia), possibly via Latin orthoepia, from Ancient Greek ????? (orthós, “correct”) + ???? (épos, “word”) + -?? (-ía, “-y”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???????i?pi/, /????????pi/, /???????pi/, /???????pi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????o???pi/, /????o??pi/

Noun

orthoepy (countable and uncountable, plural orthoepies)

1. Synonym of phonology: the study of pronunciation. [1640]
2. (inexact) Synonym of orthography: the study of the representation of pronunciation in writing.
   • 1957, E.J. Dobson, English Pronunciation 1500–1700, Vol. I, p. 193:

     In spite of his title Orthoepia Anglicana... what he sets out to teach is orthography, not orthoepy.

3. Accepted or customary pronunciation. [1773]

Usage notes

• The rare ligated spelling orthœpy is unetymological. It occurs in some instances of 19th century US English, apparently to indicate the trisyllabic pronunciation prevalent in US English. The oe in orthoepy does not represent either of the etymological diphthongs ?oe? (of Latin) or ???? (oi — the omicron-iota of Ancient Greek), but rather the two separate vowels ???? (oe, omicron-epsilon). To mark their separateness, the diæretic spelling orthoëpy is sometimes used.

Antonyms

• (pronunciation): cacoepy

Hypernyms

• linguistics, phonetics

Coordinate terms

• orthography

Derived terms

• orthoepic, orthoepical, orthoepically, orthoepist, orthoepistic, orthoepistical

Translations

References

• “orthoepy, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2004

Anagrams

• orophyte