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• epick (obsolete)

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈɛp.ɪk/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈep.ɪk/
• 韻: -ɛpɪk

語源 1

From Middle French épique, from Latin epicus, from Ancient Greek ἐπικός (epikós), from ἔπος (épos, “word, story”).

名詞

epic (plural epics)

1. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.

   Synonyms: epopee, epos

   The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.

2. A series of events considered appropriate to an epic; any work of literature, film, etc. having heroic deeds and adventures as its subject matter.

   The book was an epic in four volumes.

   • 1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:

     These epics nearly always had runaway trains, nincompoops floundering with the controls and a collapsed bridge just ahead!

3. (software engineering) A large or extended user story.
   • 2019, Leslie Munday, Using Agile In A Quality Driven Environment, page 56:

     Epics are shown in a separate list from user stories. This is because it is the user stories that are developed, not epics. Epics are decomposed into child user stories.

派生語

形容詞

epic (comparative more epic, superlative most epic)

1. Of or relating to an epic.

   Synonym: epical

   Beowulf is an epic poem.

   • 1983, Jan Knappert, Epic Poetry in Swahili and other African Languages, page 58:

     The main theme of epic poetry is, of course, the hero, his life, his greatness of character, his deeds and his death.

2. Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character.

   The epic defense was rewarded with the highest military decorations

   • 2010 August 25, Agence France-Presse, “China's epic traffic jam 'vanished'”, in Google News‎, archived from the original on 28 August 2010:

     China's epic traffic jam "vanished" [title of article]

   • 2026 March 16, Peter Baker, “In Choosing ‘Epic Fury,’ Trump Names a War and Defines His Presidency”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     After all, Epic Fury captures the Trump presidency in its essence. Everything Mr. Trump does, at least as he sees it, is epic — the biggest, the most, the first, “like we’ve never seen before,” as he likes to say.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

3. (colloquial) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.

   Synonyms: extraordinary, momentous, remarkable

   The after-prom party was truly epic.

   You made an epic mistake.

   • 2018, Anthony McCarten, Bohemian Rhapsody (motion picture), spoken by Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek):

     Then tell him his daughter's an epic shag.

派生語

語源 2

From epi-, from Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí, “on top of”).

形容詞

epic (not comparable)

1. (category theory, of a morphism) That is an epimorphism.

アナグラム

• ECPI, pice