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Definition: Sepia |
SepiaNoun1. A shade of brown with a tinge of red. 2. Rich brown pigment prepared from the ink of cuttlefishes. 3. Type genus of the Sepiidae. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sepia" was first used: 1821. (references) |
Etymology: Sepia \Se"pi*a\, noun; plural English Sepias, Latin Sepi[ae]. [Latin, from Greek the cuttlefish, or squid.]. (references) |
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Computing | SEPIA Standard ECRC Prolog Integrating Applications. Prolog with many extensions including attributed variables ("metaterms") and declarative coroutining. "SEPIA", Micha Meier |
Chemistry | A brown colour obtained from the ink sac of a species of cuttle fish. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: SepiaSynonyms: burnt sienna (n), genus Sepia (n), reddish brown (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sepia |
| English words defined with "sepia": canafistola, canafistula, Cassia fistula ♦ drumstick tree ♦ golden shower tree ♦ India ink ♦ pudding pipe tree, purging cassia ♦ Sepiae, Sepias, Sepic, Sepidaceous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sepia": ECRC-Prolog ♦ K-max. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sepia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (sepia), Esperanto (sepia), German (cuttle-fish, sepia), Latin (cuttlefish, sepia), Spanish (sepia). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sepia Cinderella (1947) | |
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 | Photographed from astern, 1940-41, showing stern anchor in its recessed well, folding propeller guards, armor belt and other details of hull and superstructure. The original, a fine-pattern halftone, is sepia in color. Credit: NAVY. |  | Sepia wash drawing by Clary Ray, circa 1900, depicting the ship with her full sailing rig. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "First Rose - Sepia" by Anthony Hall Commentary: "This was my first attempt using camera at close range. But in sepia tone." | "Sepia Face 1" by Shonna Clark Commentary: "Just messing around with the sepia tones and close ups on the face." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Sepia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.20% of the time. "Sepia" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.2% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.8% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 69 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sepia": genus Sepia ♦ roman sepia ♦ sepia drawing ♦ sepia picture. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "sepia": sepia-coloured, sepia-tinted, sepia-toned. | |
Ending with "sepia": freeze-to-sepia. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sepia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bojë e zezë supje. (various references) | |
Arabic | حبر السبيدج, السبيدج, بني داكن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | снимка в червеникавокафяво, сепия (cuttlefish), рисунка в червеникавокафяво. (various references) | |
Czech | sépie. (various references) | |
Danish | sepia. (various references) | |
Dutch | sepia. (various references) | |
Esperanto | sepio, sepiaĵo, sepia. (various references) | |
Farsi | سیبیاوسوبیا(ج.ش.), رنگ قرمزقهوه ای , رنگ سوبیاءی . (various references) | |
French | sépia (sepia drawing). (various references) | |
German | Sepia (cuttle-fish). (various references) | |
Greek | σηπία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חום כהה (dark brown). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szépia (polyp). (various references) | |
Italian | seppia (cuttlefish, squid), nero di seppia. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | セックス産業 (cement, manufacturer of assembled products, savory, semantic, semantics, semaphore, semicolon, semiconductor, semi-double bed, seminar, semiprofessional, semi-tight skirt, session, set, set position, setting, setting lotion, setup, seven, Seven-Eleven, sex industry, shoulder length hair, three-quarter bed). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | セピア . (various references) | |
Manx | doo pheie vreinn, doan ruy. (various references) | |
Papiamen | sekat. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | epiasay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sépia. (various references) | |
Russian | сепия коричневый, сепия. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sipa (cuttle, cuttlefish), sepija (ooze). (various references) | |
Spanish | calamar (cuttlefish, squib, squid), sepia (reproducible). (various references) | |
Swedish | sepiabrunt. (various references) | |
Thai | ุเป็นสีน้ำตาลดำ. (various references) | |
Turkish | siyah boya (black, blacking), sepya ile yapılmış resim, sepya, mürekkepbalığı (cuttlefish, squid), mürekkep balığı boyası, kahverengi ağırlıklı resim. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сепія. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sepia. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | seppia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sepia": sepias. (additional references) | |
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"Sepia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: depia, epia, esempio, espiar, espie, Osetia, sabia, sanpoa, sapa, Sapha, sapta, Sebhi, Sebi, sedia, Seeia, Seiwa, Sekiya, Selia, seliac, senia, sepa, sepac, sepan, sepe, Sepecat, Sepeia, sephia, sepi, sepiad, sepid, Sepik, sepina, sepis, sepium, seppa, Seppak, seppo, Sepuh, seria, Serpina, Serpula, Sesia, Sidia, Siepi, siia, sipa, sipi, sopi, spia, supea, supi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sepia" (pronounced sē"pēu) |
| 3 | -p ē u | cornucopia, hyperopia, myopia, Principia, Utopia. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: paise. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-p-s" | |
-1 letter: apes, apse, pase, peas, pias, pies, sipe, spae. | |
-2 letters: ais, ape, asp, pas, pea, pes, pia, pie, pis, psi, sae, sap, sea, sei, sip, spa. | |
-3 letters: ae, ai, as, es, is, pa, pe, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-p-s" | |
+1 letter: apices, aspire, espial, lipase, paries, pastie, pavise, petsai, pietas, praise, sepias, spavie, spicae, spirea. | |
+2 letters: adipose, alipeds, alpines, aperies, aphesis, aphides, aplites, applies, apprise, apsides, asepsis, aseptic, aspired, aspirer, aspires, aspises, atopies, auspice, baptise, capsize, despair, diapers, diphase, elapids, epinaos, episcia, espials, harpies, icecaps, impales, impasse, impaste, impresa, inphase, inscape, ipecacs, lapides, lapises, lipases, magpies, mispage, nappies, opiates, paddies, paesani, paisley, paliest, palsied, palsies, pandies, paniers, pansies, panties, pappies, paresis, parises, parries, parties, parvise, passive, pastier, pasties, pastime, patines, patsies, patties, paviser, pavises, peakish, peavies, petsais, piaffes, piaster, piastre, pikakes, pineals, pinesap, pipages, pirates, plaices, platies, pleiads, praised, praiser, praises, pyemias, rapiers, rapines, raspier, repairs, sapiens, sapient, sappier, scrapie, senopia, sharpie, soapier, spacier, spaeing, spaniel, spavies, spaviet, special, spicate, spinage, spinate, spiraea, spireas, splenia, talipes, tapises, tawpies, traipse, upraise, waspier. | |
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