época

época f (plural époques)

1. era, epoch (time period)

• era

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛpokɐ/

época f (plural épocas)

1. time, season
2. age, period, epoch (particular period of history)

• epoca (obsolete)
• epocha (obsolete)
• épocha (obsolete)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ).

• Hyphenation: é‧po‧ca

época f (plural épocas)

1. time, season
2. age, period, epoch (particular period of history)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:época.

• epoca (obsolete)
• epocha (obsolete)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ, “a check, cessation, stop, pause, epoch of a star, i.e., the point at which it seems to halt after reaching the highest, and generally the place of a star; hence, a historical epoch”), from ἐπέχω (epékhō, “to hold in, check”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, hold”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈepoka/ [ˈe.po.ka]

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• Rhymes: -epoka
• Syllabification: é‧po‧ca

época f (plural épocas)

1. epoch, era, age, time, day
2. season, time
3. period (of time), time period
4. (geology) epoch

• “época”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014