English
epanodos
Epanodos comes from Ancient Greek ἐπάνοδος, and goes back to ὁδός ‘road’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὁδός‘road’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἐπάνοδοςepánodos
- Englishearliest quotation 1835epanodos
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὁδός‘road’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἐπάνοδοςepánodos
- Englishearliest quotation 1835epanodos
Earliest quotation: 1835, Larret Langley, [Rhetorical Turns.] Epanodos.: “By Epanodos the same word moves its place, Takes…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’
set, president, size, sell, sit, sitting, seat, session, chair, resident, settle, assess, nest, siege, niche, possess, saddle, reside, subsidy, residue, residual, sediment, sedan, nye, insidious, sedentary, dissident, beset, prasad, soot, sedative, setter, obsess, sedate, chaise, presidio, sate, sessile, presidium, ersatz, 92 more
through Ancient Greek ὁδός ‘road’
Today it means
noun The repetition of a sequence of words or phrases in reverse order.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ὁδός / epanodos