Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

epeiph

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: epeiph
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The eleventh month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the third month of the season of Shemu. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Epeiph has been in roughly July.

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐπιφί (Epiphí), from Egyptian jpj-jpj. Compare Coptic Ⲉⲡⲏⲡ (Epēp).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: Ἐπιφί, jpj-jpj

Inflected Forms

Epiphi (alternative)

Questions

What does epeiph mean?: The eleventh month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the third month of the season of Shemu. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Epeiph has been in roughly July.
Where does epeiph come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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