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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐπέχω (epékhō, “to stop, hold back”) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.po.kʰɛ̌ː/ → /e.poˈçi/ → /e.poˈçi/
Noun
ἐποχή • (epokhḗ) f (genitive ἐποχῆς); first declension
- check, cessation
- retention
- (philosophy) suspension of judgement
- suspense of payment
- stoppage, pause
- the epoch of a star
- period of vibration (in musical theory)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἐποχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐποχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐποχή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐποχή in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften