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sepia

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See also: Sepia, sépia, sępia, and sępią

English

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A sepia photograph.

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin sēpia (“cuttlefish”), from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía). Cognate with Italian seppia, Portuguese siba, and Spanish sepia.

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Noun

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sepia (countable and uncountable, plural sepias)

  1. (uncountable) A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. [from 1820s]
    • 1930, A[loys] Merz, M[orris] Rea Paul, “Sepia”, in “Notes on Color Names”, in A Dictionary of Color, New York City: McGraw-Hill, page 179:
      Sepia had some use in ancient times as a writing ink, and in modern times has has occasionally been used as a pigment, but it never attained any popularity, as it is extremely fugitive.
  2. (uncountable) A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.
    sepia:  
  3. (by extension, countable) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.
  4. (archaic, countable) A cuttlefish. [from 16th c.]

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Adjective

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sepia (comparative more sepia, superlative most sepia)

  1. Of a dark reddish-brown colour.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Miss Thyrza’s Chair”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 41:
      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.
    • 1998 November 22, Lance Parkin, “Infinity and Beyond” (chapter 12), in The Infinity Doctors, BBC Books, →ISBN, page 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

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch sepia, a direct borrowing from Latin sepia, and reinforced by French or Italian.

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Noun

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sepia f or m (uncountable, no diminutive)

  1. cuttlefish

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Noun

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sepia n (uncountable, no diminutive)

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

Descendants

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  • → Indonesian: sepia

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch sepia, from Middle Dutch sepia, from Latin sēpia (“cuttlefish”), from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía).

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Noun

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sepia (uncountable)

  1. sepia (a dark, slightly reddish, brown colour)
    sepia:  

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Latin

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Etymology

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

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    sēpia f (genitive sēpiae); first declension

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

    Declension

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    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative sēpia sēpiae
    genitive sēpiae sēpiārum
    dative sēpiae sēpiīs
    accusative sēpiam sēpiās
    ablative sēpiā sēpiīs
    vocative sēpia sēpiae

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    References

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    • “sepia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “sepia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "sepia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “sepia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • “sepia”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
    • “sepia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
    • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “sēpia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 11: S–Si, page 478
    • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “sēpia”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 589

    Polish

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    Etymology

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    Learned borrowing from Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía).

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.pja/
    • Rhymes: -ɛpja
    • Syllabification: se‧pia

    Noun

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    sepia f

    1. cephalopod ink
    2. sepia (color)
    3. (photography) sepia toning
    4. cuttlefish
      Synonym: mątwa

    Declension

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    Declension of sepia
    singular plural
    nominative sepia sepie
    genitive sepii sepii/sepij (archaic)
    dative sepii sepiom
    accusative sepię sepie
    instrumental sepią sepiami
    locative sepii sepiach
    vocative sepio sepie

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    adjective

    Further reading

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    • “sepia”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)

    Spanish

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    Etymology

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    Learned borrowing from Latin sēpia. Doublet of jibia.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈsepja/ [ˈse.pja]
    • Rhymes: -epja
    • Syllabification: se‧pia

    Noun

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    sepia f (plural sepias)

    1. cuttlefish
      Synonyms: jibia, cachón, choco
    2. (photography) sepia

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