épître
French
noun
Definitions
- epistle (a letter)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French epistre derived from Latin epistola derived from Ancient Greek ἐπιστολή (letter, command, will, epistle, commission).
Origin
Ancient Greek
ἐπιστολή
Gloss
letter, command, will, epistle, commission
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- epistle English
- epistolary English
- epistola Finnish
- *epistolarium Latin
- epistola Latin
- epistolāris Latin
- epistula Latin
- epistola Italian
- epistel Dutch, Flemish
- epistolair Dutch, Flemish
- épistolaire French
- épistole French
- epístola Spanish, Castilian
- ἐπιστέλλω Ancient Greek
- ἐπιστολή Ancient Greek
- ἐπιστόλιον Ancient Greek
- epístola Portuguese
- epistre Old French
- epístola Catalan, Valencian
- pistill Icelandic
- epistolă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- epistola Indonesian
- 𐌰𐌹𐍀𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌴 Gothic
- ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲧⲟⲗⲏ Coptic
- epístola Ladino