Feminine

época

Meaning

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

Frequency

B1
Hyphenated as
é‧po‧ca
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈepoka/
Etymology

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”).

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