Talk:epigone

What is the pronunciation of this word? Hogghogg 21:03, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Does this word imply inferior imitator? Hogghogg 21:03, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

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etymology
Someone has inserted the claim that this lacks etymology. It doesn't. It's given in the English portion. There's no need to repeat it.
 * Yes there is. The etymology given in the English section explains how the term entered English.  It does not explain how the term entered Italian, which is a slightly different history. --EncycloPetey 01:40, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Nobody really knows how it entered Italian. Supposedly it first shows up in texts in the 1700s; could have been adapted directly from Greek or from Latin. In either case, the etymon is the same. The Italian part of this entry is a bit of a mess, anyway, in that as lemma it uses the feminine plural rather than the unmarked masculine singular (presumably because the spelling of the It. f.pl. matches the spelling of the English singular, but that's accidental).

I've also just noticed that the Italian pronunciation is in error. The standard pronunciation is with /o/, not /ɔ/. Also, since pronunciation is given in phonemic slashes rather than phonetic brackets, length should not be shown for the stressed vowel. Vowel length is never phonemic/contrastive in Italian, but predictable by stress and syllable structure.