sepia
English
Etymology
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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Noun
sepia (countable and uncountable, plural sepias)
- A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. [from 1820s]
- A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.
- sepia:
- (by extension, countable) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.
- (archaic, countable) The cuttlefish. [from 16th c.]
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Adjective
sepia (comparative more sepia, superlative most sepia)
- (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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Noun
sepia f or m (uncountable)
Synonyms
- (cuttlefish): zeekat
Noun
sepia n (uncountable)
- the color sepia
- a style of yellowish/brownish-and-black photography
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía), often suggested to be from Ancient Greek σήπειν (sḗpein, “to make rotten”), but (per Beekes) could instead possibly a Lua error in Module:parameters at line 307: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "pregrc" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. word.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈseː.pi.a/, [ˈs̠eːpiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.pi.a/, [ˈsɛːpiä]
Noun
sēpia f (genitive sēpiae); first declension
- a cuttlefish
- the secretion of a cuttlefish used as ink
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sēpia | sēpiae |
Genitive | sēpiae | sēpiārum |
Dative | sēpiae | sēpiīs |
Accusative | sēpiam | sēpiās |
Ablative | sēpiā | sēpiīs |
Vocative | sēpia | sēpiae |
Synonyms
- (cuttlefish): lōlīgō
Descendants
- English: sepia
- French: seiche
- Galician: xiba
- Hungarian: szépia
- Italian: seppia
- Romanian: sepia, sepie
- Russian: сепия (sepija)
- Spanish: jibia, chipirón
References
- “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’s 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[2]
- “sepia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Spanish
Noun
sepia f (plural sepias)
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