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epistle

/ɪˈpɪsəl/ih-PIH-suhl
/ɪˈpɪsəl/ih-PIH-suhl

Meaningsomething sent

Common meaning: a letter

‘upon’ + ‘to send’ → epistle

Journey through time

  1. Greekστέλλω‘to send’
  2. Latincapitulum
  3. Frenchspelt
  4. Englishepistle‘a letter’ · today

epi- also in: episodeepitaphepithetepitomeepigraph

stl also in: apostlesystole

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Greek στέλλω ‘to send; to set in order’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), entry στέλλω, p. 698 · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

apostlesystole

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