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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin epicus but with a semantic shift inspired by other nouns on -icus, from Ancient Greek ἐπικός (epikós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈeː.pi.kʏs/
- Hyphenation: epi‧cus
Noun
epicus m (plural epici)
- epicist, writer of epics
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐπικός (epikós).
Pronunciation
Adjective
epicus (feminine epica, neuter epicum); first/second-declension adjective
- (poetry) epic
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “epicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “epicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- epicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- epic poetry: carmen epicum
- an epic, heroic poet: poeta epicus