Eocene

Etymology
. From +  and refers to the "dawn" of modern ('new') fauna that appeared during the epoch. for, who introduced it in 1833 in his book .

Adjective

 * 1)  of a geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 56 to 34 million years ago.

Translations

 * Catalan: eocènic, eocè
 * Finnish: eoseenikautinen
 * French:
 * German: eozän
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: eoceno
 * Serbo-Croatian:

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Eocene epoch

Translations

 * Catalan: Eocè
 * Czech: eocén
 * Estonian: eotseen
 * Finnish: eoseenikausi
 * German:
 * Greek: Ηώκαινος
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Eoceno
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: