epicus

See also: EPICUS

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin epicus but with a semantic shift inspired by other nouns on -icus, from Ancient Greek ἐπικός (epikós).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈeː.pi.kʏs/
  • Hyphenation: epi‧cus

Noun

epicus m (plural epici)

  1. epicist, writer of epics

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπικός (epikós).

Pronunciation

Adjective

epicus (feminine epica, neuter epicum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (poetry) epic

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative epicus epica epicum epicī epicae epica
Genitive epicī epicae epicī epicōrum epicārum epicōrum
Dative epicō epicō epicīs
Accusative epicum epicam epicum epicōs epicās epica
Ablative epicō epicā epicō epicīs
Vocative epice epica epicum epicī epicae epica

Descendants
  • French: épique

References
  • “epicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “epicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • epicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • epic poetry: carmen epicum
    • an epic, heroic poet: poeta epicus
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