ἔπος

Etymology
From earlier, from , from , from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) something spoken: speech, story, song
 * 2) one's word, promise
 * 3) word as opposed to deed
 * 4) subject
 * 5) a line of poetry
 * 6)  an individual word
 * 7)  epic poetry
 * 8)  so to speak, roughly speaking, almost
 * 9)  word by word