The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἔπος“word”
- English todayepeolatry
From Ancient Greek ἔπος (épos, “word”) + -latry (“worship of”). The first citation of the word is from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in his 1860 book The Professor at the Breakfast-Table.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἔπος all →
epos
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.