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Yes. The word sepia is a Scrabble US word. The word sepia is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (3 found)

ASPIE,PAISE,SEPIA,

4-letter words (11 found)

APES,APSE,PAIS,PASE,PEAS,PIAS,PIES,PISE,SIPE,SPAE,SPIE,

3-letter words (18 found)

AIS,APE,ASP,EAS,PAS,PEA,PES,PIA,PIE,PIS,PSI,SAE,SAI,SAP,SEA,SEI,SIP,SPA,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AI,AS,EA,ES,IS,PA,PE,PI,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 43 words from sepia according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of sepia

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Definitions and meaning of sepia

sepia

Etymology

From Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía, “cuttlefish”), from σήψ (sḗps, “a kind of lizard, also a kind of serpent whose bite was alleged to cause putrefaction”). Compare Italian seppia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsiːpiə/, (sometimes) IPA(key): /ˈsɛpiə/
  • Rhymes: -iːpiə

Noun

sepia (countable and uncountable, plural sepias)

  1. A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. [from 1820s]
  2. A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.
  3. (by extension, countable) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.
  4. (archaic, countable) The cuttlefish. [from 16th c.]

Translations

Adjective

sepia (comparative more sepia, superlative most sepia)

  1. Of a dark reddish-brown colour.

Related terms

  • sepian
  • sepiolite

Translations

See also

  • black and white
  • color
  • cuttlefish
  • ink sac
  • Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

  • Aspie, aspie, paise

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sepia, via French or Italian from Latin sepia.

Pronunciation

Noun

sepia f or m (uncountable)

  1. cuttlefish

Synonyms

  • (cuttlefish): zeekat

Noun

sepia n (uncountable)

  1. the color sepia
  2. a style of yellowish/brownish-and-black photography

Further reading

  • van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “sepia”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía), often suggested to be from Ancient Greek σήπειν (sḗpein, “to make rotten”), but (per Beekes) could instead be a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈseː.pi.a/, [ˈs̠eːpiä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.pi.a/, [ˈsɛːpiä]

Noun

sēpia f (genitive sēpiae); first declension

  1. a cuttlefish
  2. the secretion of a cuttlefish used as ink

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

  • (cuttlefish): lōlīgō

Descendants

References

  • “sepia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sepia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sepia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sepia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “sepia”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “sepia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sēpia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 11: S–Si, page 478
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sēpia”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 589

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.pja/
  • Rhymes: -ɛpja
  • Syllabification: se‧pia

Noun

sepia f

  1. cephalopod ink
  2. sepia (color)
  3. (photography) sepia toning
  4. cuttlefish
    Synonym: mątwa

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • sepia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sēpia. Doublet of jibia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsepja/ [ˈse.pja]
  • Rhymes: -epja
  • Syllabification: se‧pia

Noun

sepia f (plural sepias)

  1. cuttlefish
    Synonyms: jibia, cachón, choco
  2. (photography) sepia

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “sepia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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