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|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[word]], [[speech]] (Il.),<br />Other forms: in plur. also = <b class="b2">song, epic poem</b> (Pi., Hdt.; on meaning and use Fournier Les verbes "dire" 212ff.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member in [[ἐπεσβόλος]] (s. v.), <b class="b3">ἐπο-ποιός</b> (with analog. comp. vowel); as 2. member e. g. in [[ἀπτοεπής]] (s. v.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἐπύλλιον</b> <b class="b2">small song, small verse</b> (Ar.; after it other deminutives in <b class="b3">-ύλλιον</b>, Leumann Glotta 32, 214 and 225); <b class="b3">ἐπικός</b> <b class="b2">belonging to epic poetry</b> (D. H.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1135] <b class="b2">*u̯ekʷ-</b> [[speak]]<br />Etymology: <b class="b3">Ϝέπος</b> (El., Cypr.) is identical with Skt. <b class="b2">vácas-</b>, Av. <b class="b2">vačah-</b> [[word]]; IE <b class="b2">*u̯ékʷ-os-</b> n. Greek further has the nouns <b class="b3">*ὄψ</b> in <b class="b3">ὄπ-α</b> (acc.), [[ὄσσα]], prob. also <b class="b3">ἐν-οπή</b>, and the aorist [[εἶπον]], s. vv. A primary athematic verb is preserved in Skt. <b class="b2">vák-ti</b> <b class="b2">he seaks</b>. - See W.-Hofmann s. [[vōx]]. (S. also on [[αἶνος]].)
|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[word]], [[speech]] (Il.),<br />Other forms: in plur. also = <b class="b2">song, epic poem</b> (Pi., Hdt.; on meaning and use Fournier Les verbes "dire" 212ff.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member in [[ἐπεσβόλος]] (s. v.), <b class="b3">ἐπο-ποιός</b> (with analog. comp. vowel); as 2. member e. g. in [[ἀπτοεπής]] (s. v.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἐπύλλιον</b> <b class="b2">small song, small verse</b> (Ar.; after it other deminutives in <b class="b3">-ύλλιον</b>, Leumann Glotta 32, 214 and 225); <b class="b3">ἐπικός</b> <b class="b2">belonging to epic poetry</b> (D. H.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1135] <b class="b2">*u̯ekʷ-</b> [[speak]]<br />Etymology: <b class="b3">Ϝέπος</b> (El., Cypr.) is identical with Skt. <b class="b2">vácas-</b>, Av. <b class="b2">vačah-</b> [[word]]; IE <b class="b2">*u̯ékʷ-os-</b> n. Greek further has the nouns <b class="b3">*ὄψ</b> in <b class="b3">ὄπ-α</b> (acc.), [[ὄσσα]], prob. also <b class="b3">ἐν-οπή</b>, and the aorist [[εἶπον]], s. vv. A primary athematic verb is preserved in Skt. <b class="b2">vák-ti</b> <b class="b2">he seaks</b>. - See W.-Hofmann s. [[vōx]]. (S. also on [[αἶνος]].)
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|mdlsjtxt=[[ἔπος]], εος, [ἔπω1]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[word]], Od., etc.:— a [[tale]], [[story]], lay, Od.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a pledged [[word]], [[promise]], Il., etc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> a [[word]] of [[advice]], [[counsel]], Il.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> the [[word]] of a [[deity]], a [[prophecy]], [[oracle]], Od., Hdt., Trag.:—[[later]] also, a [[saying]], saw, [[proverb]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> the [[meaning]], [[substance]], [[subject]] of a [[speech]], a [[thing]] or [[matter]], Il.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> Phrases:— ἅμα [[ἔπος]] τε καὶ [[ἔργον]] ἐποίεε "no [[sooner]] said [[than]] done," Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> κατ' [[ἔπος]] [[word]] by [[word]], [[exactly]], Ar.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> οὐδὲν πρὸς [[ἔπος]] [[nothing]] to the [[purpose]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> ὡς [[ἔπος]] [[εἰπεῖν]] or ὡς [[εἰπεῖν]] [[ἔπος]], so to say, as the [[saying]] is, Eur., etc.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> ἑνὶ ἔπει in one [[word]], [[briefly]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> in pl. [[poetry]] in [[heroic]] [[verse]], epic [[poetry]], opp. to [[μέλη]] (lyric [[poetry]]), etc., Hdt., [[attic]]: also, [[generally]], [[poetry]], Pind.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in sg. a [[verse]] or [[line]] of [[poetry]], Hdt., Ar.
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