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id="div-gpt-ad-pc-wd-top" style="min-width:728px;min-height:90px"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa"><div><div class="" style="position:relative"><h1 title="Origin and meaning of epicene" class="word__name--TTbAA">epicene<!-- --> <!-- -->(adj.)</h1><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH"><p>"belonging to or including both sexes," mid-15c., <span class="foreign notranslate">epycen</span>, originally a grammatical term for nouns that may denote either gender, from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">epicoenus</span> "common," from Greek <span class="foreign notranslate">epikoinos</span> "common to many, promiscuous," from <span class="foreign notranslate">epi</span> "on" (see <a href="/word/epi-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of epi- " class="crossreference notranslate">epi-</a>) + <span class="foreign notranslate">koinos</span> "common" (see <a href="/word/coeno-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of coeno- " class="crossreference notranslate">coeno-</a>). English has no need of it in its grammatical sense. Extended sense of "characteristic of both sexes" first recorded in English c. 1600; that of "effeminate" is from 1630s.</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:mid-15c.">mid-15c.</a></div></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to epicene">Entries linking to <i>epicene</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of coeno-" href="/word/coeno-#etymonline_v_36177">coeno-<!-- --> <span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>before vowels <span class="foreign notranslate">coen-</span>, word-forming element meaning "common," from Latinized form of Greek <span class="foreign notranslate">koinos</span> "common, public, shared, general, ordinary," from PIE <span class="foreign notranslate">*kom</span> "beside, near, by, with" (see <a href="/word/com-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of com- " class="crossreference notranslate">com-</a>).</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of epi-" href="/word/epi-#etymonline_v_8777">epi-<!-- --> <span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>before vowels reduced to <span class="foreign notranslate">ep-</span>, before aspirated vowels <span class="foreign notranslate">eph-</span>, word-forming element meaning "on, upon, above," also "in addition to; toward, among," from Greek <span class="foreign notranslate">epi</span> "upon, at, close upon (in space or time), on the occasion of, in addition," also "after," from PIE <span class="foreign notranslate">*epi</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">*opi</span> "near, at, against" (source also of Sanskrit <span class="foreign notranslate">api</span> "also, besides;" Avestan <span class="foreign notranslate">aipi</span> "also, to, toward;" Armenian <span class="foreign notranslate">ev</span> "also, and;" Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">ob</span> "toward, against, in the way of;" Oscan <span class="foreign notranslate">op</span>, Greek <span class="foreign notranslate">opi-</span> "behind;" Hittite <span class="foreign notranslate">appizzis</span> "younger;" Lithuanian <span class="foreign notranslate">ap-</span> "about, near;" Old Church Slavonic <span class="foreign notranslate">ob</span> "on"). A productive prefix in Greek; also used in modern scientific compounds (such as <a href="/word/epicenter" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of epicenter " class="crossreference notranslate">epicenter</a>).</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of epicene">Trends of <i>epicene</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. 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