noun
Meaning 1
Inscriptions collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
epigraphy
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noun
Meaning 2
The study or decipherment of inscriptions, especially of ancient ones.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: epigraphics, epigraphology
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the study of ancient inscriptions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: paleography
History
Etymology
From epigraph + -y.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: epigrafia — study of inscriptions
- Chinese Mandarin: 金石學 /金石学 (jīnshíxué) — study of inscriptions
- Czech: epigrafika — study of inscriptions
- Dutch: epigrafie — study of inscriptions
- Finnish: epigrafia — study of inscriptions
- French: épigraphie — study of inscriptions
- Galician: epigrafía — study of inscriptions
- German: Epigraphik — study of inscriptions
- Greek: επιγραφική (epigrafikí) — study of inscriptions
- Indonesian: epigrafi — study of inscriptions
- Japanese: 金石学 (kinsekigaku) — study of inscriptions
- Khmer: អភិលេខន៍ (ak phi lekh) — study of inscriptions
- Northern Kurdish: epîgrafî — study of inscriptions
- Latin: epigraphia — study of inscriptions
- Latvian: epigrāfika — study of inscriptions
- Portuguese: epigrafia — study of inscriptions
- Romanian: epigrafie — study of inscriptions
- Russian: эпигра́фика (epigráfika) — study of inscriptions
- Spanish: epigrafía — study of inscriptions
- Tamil: கல்வெட்டியல் (kalveṭṭiyal) — study of inscriptions
- Turkish: yazıt bilimi — study of inscriptions
- Turkish: epigrafi — study of inscriptions
- Vietnamese: kim thạch học — study of inscriptions
- Vietnamese: minh văn học — study of inscriptions
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