Translation
episode (of a series); an incident, a passing event
Word origin
From Greek epeisodion, literally the part coming in besides, which is what the actors' scenes were called between the chorus songs of a tragedy. The television sense is two and a half thousand years younger than the word.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- epeisodion
- English cognates
- episode, episodic
Examples
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The last episode of the series was the best.
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We watched three episodes yesterday evening.
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That episode of his life stayed a secret.
Two senses, and the older one is not about television. An is a
single instalment of a serio, rank 1,791, which is the
sense you will meet online. It is also an incident, a self-contained passage of
somebody's life or of a story: a is an unpleasant business
you would rather forget, not something that was broadcast.
Against the neighbours. A ĉapitro, rank 1,695,
is a division of a book, made by the author for the reader's convenience. A
sceno, rank 1,505, is a single continuous stretch of
action inside a play or a film. An is bigger than a scene and looser
than a chapter: it is the unit a televido channel
sells you one week at a time.
The word is a root, not a build. Nothing in decomposes. There is
no epi- prefix in Esperanto and no -zod- root, so resist the urge to look
for one, and note that the useful derivations run the other way: epizoda means
episodic or occasional, and epizode means now and then rather than steadily.
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