The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἐπίσημος“distinguished; remarkable”
- Medieval Greek · borrowed fromἐπίσημον
- English todayepisemon
From Medieval Greek ἐπίσημον (epísēmon), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσημος (epísēmos, “distinguished; remarkable”), from ἐπί (epí, “above”) + σῆμα (sêma, “sign”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.