epopee

See also: épopée

English

Alternative forms

• épopée, epopea, epopoeia, epopœia

Etymology

Borrowed from French épopée.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛpəpiː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

epopee (plural epopees)

1. (rare, literary) an epic, saga

Translations

an epic, saga

• Arabic: مَلْحَمَة f (malḥama)
• Armenian: հերոսապատում (hy) (herosapatum), էպոպեա (hy) (ēpopea)
• Azerbaijani: epopeya, qəhrəmannamə
• Belarusian: эпапе́я f (epapjéja)
• Bulgarian: епопе́я f (epopéja)
• Catalan: epopeia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 史詩 / 史诗 (zh) (shǐshī)

• Chuvash: эпопея (ep̬op̬eja)
• Crimean Tatar: epopeya
• Czech: epopej
• Esperanto: epopeo
• Estonian: epopöa
• Finnish: epopea
• French: épopée (fr) f
• Georgian: ეპოპეა (eṗoṗea)
• German: Epopöe (de) f
• Greek: εποποιία (el) (epopoiía)
• Italian: epopea (it) f
• Kazakh: эпопея (épopeä), дәуірнама (däuırnama)
• Kyrgyz: эпопея (ky) (epopeya)
• Latvian: epopeja f
• Polish: epopeja (pl) f
• Portuguese: epopeia (pt) f
• Romanian: epopee (ro)
• Russian: эпопе́я (ru) f (epopéja)
• Slovak: epopeja (sk) f
• Spanish: epopeya (es) f
• Swedish: epopé (sv) c
• Tatar: эпопея (epopeyä)
• Ukrainian: епопе́я f (epopéja)
• Uzbek: epopeya (uz)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French épopée, from Ancient Greek ἐποποιία (epopoiía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeː.poːˈpeː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: epo‧pee
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

epopee f (plural epopeeën, no diminutive)

1. epic (extended narrative poem, usually in dactylic hexametre)

   Synonyms: epos, heldendicht

Italian

Noun

epopee f

1. plural of epopea

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French épopée.

Noun

epopee f (plural epopei)

1. epic

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	epopee	epopeea	epopei	epopeile
genitive-dative	epopei	epopeii	epopei	epopeilor
vocative	epopee, epopeeo		epopeilor