sepia

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See also: Sepia, sépia, sępia, and sępią

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía, “cuttlefish”), from σήψ (sḗps, “a kind of lizard, also a kind of serpent whose bite was alleged to cause putrefaction”). Compare Italian seppia.

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sepia (countable and uncountable, plural sepias)

  1. A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. [from 1820s]
  2. A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.
    sepia:  
  3. (by extension, countable) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.
  4. (archaic, countable) The cuttlefish. [from 16th c.]

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cuttlefish — see cuttlefish

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sepia (comparative more sepia, superlative most sepia)

  1. (colour)  Of a dark reddish-brown colour.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎[1]:
      Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
    • 1985 — Lance 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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Dutch[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch sepia, via French or Italian from Latin sepia.

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sepia f or m (uncountable)

  1. cuttlefish

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sepia n (uncountable)

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

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía), often suggested to be from Ancient Greek σήπειν (sḗpein, “to make rotten”), but (per Beekes) could instead possibly a Pre-Greek word.

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Noun[edit]

sēpia f (genitive sēpiae); first declension

  1. a cuttlefish
  2. the secretion of a cuttlefish used as ink

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sēpia sēpiae
Genitive sēpiae sēpiārum
Dative sēpiae sēpiīs
Accusative sēpiam sēpiās
Ablative sēpiā sēpiīs
Vocative sēpia sēpiae

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin sepĭa

Noun[edit]

sepia f (plural sepias)

  1. cuttlefish

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