Alternative forms

• ϝέπος (wépos) — Aeolic

Etymology

From earlier ϝέπος (wépos), from Proto-HellenicCategory:Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic#ΕΠΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic#ΕΠΟΣ *wékʷos, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#ΕΠΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ΕΠΟΣ *wékʷos, from *wekʷ- (“to speak”). Cognates include Sanskrit वचस् (vácas)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#ΕΠΟΣ and Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬗𐬀𐬵- (vacah-).

Pronunciation

Noun

ἔπος • (épos) n (genitive ἔπεος or ἔπους)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΕΠΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek nouns#ΕΠΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek paroxytone terms#ΕΠΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek neuter nouns#ΕΠΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek third-declension nouns#ΕΠΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension#ΕΠΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΕΠΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek neuter nouns#ΕΠΟΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΕΠΟΣCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ΕΠΟΣ; third declension

1. something spoken: speech, story, song

   Synonyms: λόγος (lógos), λέξις (léxis), μῦθος (mûthos), ῥῆμα (rhêma), φράσις (phrásis), φῆμα (phêma), φθέγμα (phthégma)

   1. one's word, promise
   2. word (as opposed to deed)

      Antonym: ἔργον (érgon)

   3. subject
   4. a line of poetry
   5. (when discussing etymology or usage) an individual word
2. (in the plural) epic poetry

   Coordinate terms: μέλη (mélē), ἰαμβεῖα (iambeîa), διθύραμβοι (dithúramboi)

Further reading

• “ἔπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἔπος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἔπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔπος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἔπος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2031 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ballad idem, page 60.
  • line idem, page 492.
  • prediction idem, page 634.
  • prophecy idem, page 653.
  • verse idem, page 948.
  • word idem, page 987.