epocha

From Medieval Latin epocha.

epocha (plural epochas)

1. Obsolete form of epoch.
   • 1667, J G, Some Philosophical Considerations Touching the Being of Witches and Witchcraft. , London: E C for James Collins , →OCLC, page 5:

     tanding publick Records have been kept of theſe vvell atteſted Relations, and Epocha’s made of thoſe unvvonted events.

   • 1773, John Adams, “1773. Decr. 17th”, in Diary of John Adams, Volume 2, pages 85–86:

     This Destruction of the Tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences, and so lasting, that I cant but consider it as an Epocha in History.

   • 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, Broadview, published 2002, page 70:

     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.

• Phocea, cheapo, phocae

• IPA^(key):

epocha f

1. epoch

• éra
• období
• časy
• věk

• “epocha”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “epocha”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “epocha”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ, “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 ἐπέχω (epékhō, “I hold in, check”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “I have, hold”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈe.po.kʰa/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.po.ka/,

epocha f (genitive epochae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) age, period, time, season, epoch (particular period of history)

First-declension noun.

• → English: epocha, epoch
• → German: Epoche
• Asturian: época
• French: époque
• Galician: época
• Italian: epoca
• Mirandese: época
• Portuguese: época
• Romanian: epocă
• Sicilian: èbbica
• Spanish: época

epocha f (plural epochas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of época.