- ἔπος
- ἔποςGrammatical information: n.Meaning: `word, speech' (Il.),Other forms: in plur. also = `song, epic poem' (Pi., Hdt.; on meaning and use Fournier Les verbes "dire" 212ff.).Compounds: As 1. member in ἐπεσβόλος (s. v.), ἐπο-ποιός (with analog. comp. vowel); as 2. member e. g. in ἀπτοεπής (s. v.).Derivatives: ἐπύλλιον `small song, small verse' (Ar.; after it other deminutives in -ύλλιον, Leumann Glotta 32, 214 and 225); ἐπικός `belonging to epic poetry' (D. H.).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1135] *u̯ekʷ- `speak'Etymology: Ϝέπος (El., Cypr.) is identical with Skt. vácas-, Av. vačah- `word'; IE *u̯ékʷ-os- n. Greek further has the nouns *ὄψ in ὄπ-α (acc.), ὄσσα, prob. also ἐν-οπή, and the aorist εἶπον, s. vv. A primary athematic verb is preserved in Skt. vák-ti `he seaks'. - See W.-Hofmann s. vōx. (S. also on αἶνος.)Page in Frisk: 1,545
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.