episode

See also: Episode and épisode

English

Etymology

From French épisode, from New Latin *epīsodium, from Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον (epeisódion, “a parenthetic addition, episode”), neuter of ἐπεισόδιος (epeisódios, “following upon the entrance, coming in besides, adventitious”), from ἐπί (epí, “on”) + εἰς (eis, “into”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛp.ɪ.səʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛp.ə.soʊd/

  • Audio (GA)

    (file)

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈep.ɪ.səʉd/
• Hyphenation: epi‧sode

Noun

episode (plural episodes)

1. An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.

   It was a most embarrassing episode in my life.

   • 1935, Francis Beeding [pseudonym; John Palmer], “10/6”, in The Norwich Victims, →OL:

     The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.

   • 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 81:

     Three of the great extinctions appear to have occurred during cold episodes and two during hot episodes.

2. An instalment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.

   I can't wait till next week’s episode.

   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): ‘Marge Gets A Job’ (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1]:

     We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.

Hyponyms

• (instalment of a TV series): bottle episode

Derived terms

• episodic
• episodical
• very special episode

Descendants

• → Irish: eipeasóid
• → Malay: episod

Translations

incident or action connected with a series of events

• Arabic: حَادِثَة f (ḥādiṯa), وَاقِعَة f (wāqiʕa)
• Azerbaijani: vaqiə, hadisə (az)
• Basque: gertaera
• Bulgarian: слу́чка (bg) f (slúčka)
• Catalan: episodi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 事件 (zh) (shìjiàn), 插曲 (zh) (chāqǔ)

• Danish: episode (da) c, hændelse (da) c
• Dutch: gebeuren (nl) n, episode (nl)
• Finnish: tapaus (fi), episodi (fi)
• French: épisode (fr) m
• Galician: episodio (gl) m
• German: Episode (de) f
• Greek: επεισόδιο (el) n (epeisódio)
• Hungarian: esemény (hu), epizód (hu)
• Indonesian: episode (id)
• Irish: eachtra (ga) f, teagmhas m
• Italian: episodio (it)
• Japanese: 出来事 (ja) (できごと, dekigoto), 挿話 (ja) (そうわ, sōwa), エピソード (ja) (episōdo), 逸話 (ja) (いつわ, itsuwa)
• Kazakh: оқиға (oqiğa)
• Korean: 사건(事件) (ko) (sageon), 삽화(揷話) (ko) (saphwa), 일화(逸話) (ko) (ilhwa), 에피소드 (ko) (episodeu)
• Kyrgyz: окуя (ky) (okuya)
• Persian: واقعه (fa) (vâqe'e), حادثه (fa) (hâdese)
• Polish: epizod (pl) m
• Portuguese: episódio (pt) m
• Russian: эпизо́д (ru) m (epizód), слу́чай (ru) m (slúčaj), собы́тие (ru) n (sobýtije), происше́ствие (ru) n (proisšéstvije)
• Slovene: epizoda f
• Spanish: episodio (es) m, incidente (es) m
• Swedish: episod (sv) c
• Tajik: воқеа (tg) (voqea), ҳодиса (tg) (hodisa)
• Telugu: ఉపకథ (te) (upakatha)
• Turkish: epizot (tr)
• Urdu: وَاقِعَہ m (vāqiʻa), حادِثَہ (ur) f (hādisa)
• Uzbek: voqea (uz), hodisa (uz)

instalment of a drama told in parts

• Albanian: episod (sq) m
• Arabic: حَلْقَة f (ḥalqa), جُزْء (ar) m (juzʔ)

  Hijazi Arabic: حَلقة f (ḥalga, ḥalaga)

• Armenian: դրվագ (hy) (drvag)
• Belarusian: эпізо́д m (epizód)
• Bulgarian: епизо́д (bg) m (epizód)
• Catalan: capítol (ca) m, episodi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集 (zh) (jí)

• Czech: epizoda (cs) f
• Danish: afsnit (da) n, del (da) c
• Dutch: aflevering (nl) f
• Esperanto: epizodo
• Estonian: episood, osa (et)
• Faroese: partur m
• Finnish: jakso (fi)
• French: épisode (fr) m
• Galician: episodio (gl) m
• Georgian: ეპიზოდი (eṗizodi)
• German: Episode (de) f, Folge (de) f
• Greek: επεισόδιο (el) n (epeisódio)
• Hebrew: פֶּרֶק (he) m (pérek)
• Hungarian: rész (hu), epizód (hu)
• Irish: eagrán m, eipeasóid f, clár m
• Italian: episodio (it) m
• Japanese: 話 (ja) (わ, wa) (counter, used with numerals), 回 (ja) (かい, kai)
• Kazakh: эпизод (épizod)
• Korean: 에피소드 (ko) (episodeu), 화(話) (ko) (hwa)
• Kyrgyz: эпизод (ky) (epizod)
• Latvian: epizode f
• Lithuanian: epizodas m
• Macedonian: епизода f (epizoda)
• Malay: episod
• Maori: wāhanga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: episode (no) m

  Nynorsk: episode m

• Persian: اپیزود (fa) (epizôd), قسمت (fa) (qesmat), بخش (fa) (baxš)
• Polish: odcinek (pl) m, epizod (pl) m
• Portuguese: episódio (pt) m
• Romanian: episod (ro) n
• Russian: эпизо́д (ru) m (epizód), се́рия (ru) f (sérija)
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-sgeul m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: епизо́да f

  Roman: epizóda (sh) f

• Slovak: epizóda f, časť (sk) f
• Slovene: epizoda f
• Spanish: capítulo (es) m, episodio (es) m
• Swedish: episod (sv) c, avsnitt (sv) n
• Tajik: лавҳа (lavha), манзара (manzara), эпизод (tg) (epizod)
• Thai: ฉาก (th) (chàak), ตอน (th) (dtɔɔn), บท (th) (bòt)
• Turkish: epizot (tr), bölüm (tr)
• Ukrainian: епізо́д m (epizód), се́рія f (sérija)
• Urdu: قِسْط f (qist̤)
• Uzbek: epizod (uz)
• Vietnamese: phần (vi)
• Welsh: pennod (cy) f

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Translations to be checked

• Bengali: ^{(please verify)} পর্ব (bn) (porbo)
• Icelandic: (1) ^{(please verify)} atvik (is), (2) ^{(please verify)} þáttur (is)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} episodio
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} näijenot

Further reading

• “episode”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “episode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• poesied

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French épisode, from Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον (epeisódion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeː.piˈsoː.də/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: epi‧so‧de
• Rhymes: -oːdə

Noun

episode f (plural episoden or episodes, diminutive episodetje n)

1. An episode (instalment).
2. An episode (action, time period or sequence of events).

Synonyms

• (drama): aflevering

Derived terms

• episodisch

Descendants

• → Indonesian: episode

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch episode, from French épisode, from Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον (epeisódion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɛpiˈsodə]
• Hyphenation: èpi‧so‧dê

Noun

èpisodê (first-person possessive episodeku, second-person possessive episodemu, third-person possessive episodenya)

1. episode: an incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.

   Synonyms: kejadian, peristiwa

Alternative forms

• episod: nonstandard Indonesian, standard Malay (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Related terms

• episodik

 

Further reading

• “episode” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον (epeisódion), via French épisode.

Noun

episode m (definite singular episoden, indefinite plural episoder, definite plural episodene)

1. an episode
2. an incident

References

• “episode” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον (epeisódion), via French épisode.

Noun

episode m (definite singular episoden, indefinite plural episodar, definite plural episodane)

1. an episode
2. an incident

References

• “episode” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.