different between sepia vs sepic

English

Etymology

From Latin s?pia, from Ancient Greek ????? (s?pía, “cuttlefish”), from ??? (s?ps, “a kind of lizard, also a kind of serpent whose bite was alleged to cause putrefaction”). Compare Italian seppia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?pi?/
• Rhymes: -i?pi?

Noun

sepia (countable and uncountable, plural sepias)

1. A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. [from 1820s]
2. A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.

3. (by extension, countable) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.
4. (archaic, countable) The cuttlefish. [from 16th c.]

Translations

Adjective

sepia (comparative more sepia, superlative most sepia)

1. (colour)  Of a dark reddish-brown colour.
   • 1985 — Lance Parkin, The Infinity Doctors, p 209

     Only now did he realise how few colours there had been at the end of the universe. The world had been sepia, drained of colour and light.

Translations

Related terms

• sepiolite

See also

• black and white
• color
• cuttlefish
• ink sac
• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• Aspie, aspie, paise

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sepia, via French or Italian from Latin sepia.

Pronunciation

Noun

sepia f or m (uncountable)

1. cuttlefish

Synonyms

• (cuttlefish): zeekat

Noun

sepia n (uncountable)

1. the color sepia
2. a style of yellowish/brownish-and-black photography

Further reading

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010) , “sepia”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (s?pía), often suggested to be from Ancient Greek ?????? (s?pein, “to make rotten”), but (per Beekes) could instead possibly a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se?.pi.a/, [?s?e?piä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.pi.a/, [?s??pi?]

Noun

s?pia f (genitive s?piae); first declension

1. a cuttlefish
2. the secretion of a cuttlefish used as ink

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (cuttlefish): l?l?g?

Descendants

• English: sepia
• French: seiche
• Galician: xiba
• Hungarian: szépia
• Italian: seppia
• Romanian: sepia, sepie
• Russian: ????? (sepija)
• Spanish: jibia, chipirón

References

• sepia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sepia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sepia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sepia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sepia in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• sepia in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin sep?a.

Noun

sepia f (plural sepias)

1. cuttlefish

   Synonyms: jibia, cachón, choco

Derived terms

English

Etymology

sepia +? -ic

Adjective

sepic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia.

   a sepic drawing

Anagrams

• SPECI, SPICE, Spice, epics, pices, spice