ἔμφασις
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- appearance
- outward appearance, reflection, image
- setting forth, narrative, proof
- (rhetoric) significance, emphasis, force
- moral (of a story)
Etymology
Affix from Ancient Greek ἐμφαίνω (present, I show) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (speak, shine, say, glow).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰeh₂-
Gloss
speak, shine, say, glow
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
話
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- emphasis English
- phone English
- phonetics English
- phonology English
- confessus Latin
- confābulātiōnem Latin
- cōnfābulārī Latin
- emphasis Latin
- fabulosus Latin
- facundus Latin
- fata Latin
- fatum Latin
- focus Latin
- fābula Latin
- fābulōsus Latin
- fātum Latin
- fētiālēs Latin
- infans Latin
- professio Latin
- professiō Latin
- professor Latin
- professus Latin
- profiteor Latin
- profitērī Latin
- īnfāntem, īnfāns Latin
- enfasi Italian
- fonologia Italian
- fonosemantica Italian
- fonosimbolo Italian
- fotogenia Italian
- fotogenicità Italian
- xilofonista Italian
- xilofono Italian
- dysphémisme French
- photogénique French
- habladuría Spanish, Castilian
- xilofonista Spanish, Castilian
- xilófono Spanish, Castilian
- énfasis Spanish, Castilian
- -φωνος Ancient Greek
- -φωνος, φωνή Ancient Greek
- βλασφημέω Ancient Greek
- βλασφημία Ancient Greek
- διαφαίνω Ancient Greek
- εὐφημισμός Ancient Greek
- παμφανόων Ancient Greek
- προφήτης Ancient Greek
- συκοφάντης Ancient Greek
- φάσις Ancient Greek
- φαινόμενον Ancient Greek
- φανή Ancient Greek
- φωνέω Ancient Greek
- φωνή Ancient Greek
- φωνήεις Ancient Greek
- φωνητῐκός Ancient Greek
- φώνημα Ancient Greek
- φᾰντᾰστῐκός Ancient Greek
- φᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱ Ancient Greek
- ἀφασία Ancient Greek
- ἐμφαίνω Ancient Greek
- ἐμφατικός Ancient Greek
- ἐπιφάνεια Ancient Greek
- ἱεροφάντης Ancient Greek
- *bʰeh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂, *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂-, *bʰ-né-h₂-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂-meh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂os Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰh₂-new-ti, bʰh₂-n̥w-énti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰh₂nyéti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰh₂wesnós Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰn̥h₂-é-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰoh₂-néh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰéh₂meh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰéh₂os Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰéh₂ti Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- bʰeh₂, *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- bʰh₂-sḱéti, *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- fadista Portuguese
- fado Portuguese
- ênfase Portuguese
- *bannaną Proto-Germanic
- *bannijaną Proto-Germanic
- *bōniz Proto-Germanic
- *bōnō Proto-Germanic
- भनति Sanskrit
- भान Sanskrit
- भाषति Sanskrit
- भाषते Sanskrit
- भाषा Sanskrit
- fabhalscéal Irish
- fabhalscéalaí Irish
- fabhalscéalaíocht Irish
- banna Old Norse
- bón Old Norse
- *bajьka Proto-Slavic
- èmfasi Catalan, Valencian
- bæn Icelandic
- bón Icelandic
- bahasa Indonesia Indonesian
- ban Middle Dutch
- բառ Old Armenian
- bahasa Malay
- bahasa Malaysia Malay
- bëzej Albanian
- *bōnōn gmw-pro
- *bānos Proto-Celtic
- bōnen Middle Low German
- *bʰaH- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *bʰáHšaH Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *fatēōr Proto-Italic
- *fāðlā Proto-Italic
- *fāōr Proto-Italic
- enfanter xno
- *mləspʰāmos Proto-Hellenic
- *pʰáňňō Proto-Hellenic
- бон Ossetian, Ossetic