sepia

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin sepia, from Ancient Greek σηπία ‘cuttlefish’.

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Singular
sepia

Plural
sepias

sepia (plural sepias)

  1. (archaic) The cuttlefish.
  2. A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.
  3. (colour) A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.
    sepia colour:    
  4. A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.

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sepia (comparative more sepia, superlative most sepia)

Positive
sepia

Comparative
more sepia

Superlative
most sepia

  1. (colour) Of a dark reddish-brown colour.

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  • 1985Lance Parkin, The Infinity Doctors, p 209
    Only now did he realise how few colours there had been at the end of the universe. The world had been sepia, drained of colour and light.

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sepia

  1. cuttlefish
  2. the color sepia
  3. a style of yellowish/brownish-and-black photography

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[edit] Latin

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From Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpia)

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sēpia (genitive sēpiae); f, first declension

  1. a cuttlefish

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Number Singular Plural
nominative sēpia sēpiae
genitive sēpiae sēpiārum
dative sēpiae sēpiīs
accusative sēpiam sēpiās
ablative sēpiā sēpiīs
vocative sēpia sēpiae

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