The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἐπί“on”
- English todayepicentre
From epi- (“over, on top”) + centre, from Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí, “on”) + κέντρον (kéntron, “centre”). Sense of “center of an activity (particularly a disaster)” (1908) by generalization from earthquakes, possibly influenced by epidemic.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἐπί all →
epicepizooticephidrosisepicanthicepichorialepigyneepithecaeponychium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.