Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

proto-epic

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English

Syllables: pro-to-epic
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An underlying or root epic upon which many later epics are variants.

Example Sentences

"Just so, two IE-speaking cultures sang of an epoch-marking war, brought on by the chief god to relieve the earth of mortals. Do these then descend from a proto-epic, sung by people who spoke the language ancestral to Greek and Sanskrit?"

Etymology

From proto- + epic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: proto

Inflected Forms

proto-epics (plural)

Questions

What does proto-epic mean?: An underlying or root epic upon which many later epics are variants.
Where does proto-epic come from?: From proto- + epic.

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