Word origins

• epistyleA massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; an architrave.
• epithalamiumA song or poem celebrating a marriage.
• EpithersesA male given name
• epithetonAn epithet, an attribute of a person or thing.
• epitomateSynonym of epitomize (“make an epitome of”).
• epitomatorSynonym of epitomizer, a writer of epitomes.
• epitropeA figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to someone to do what he or she proposes to do, e.g. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.
• e pluribus unum"out of many, one" or "from many, one" (alternatively translated as "one out of many" or "one from many”)
• epocheMoment of theoretical suspension of all action.
• eponymyThe status or condition of being an eponym (person lending their name to something); the distinction of having something named after oneself.
• epotationA drinking up; a quaffing.
• epulationA feast or banquet.
• equ-Equal; balanced; identical.
• equabilityThe condition of being equable.
• equanimousCalm and composed; of stable disposition.
• equesA member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of the two aristocratic classes of Ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians.
• equi-Equal, equally.
• equicruralHaving legs of equal size; isosceles.
• equiformHaving the same form; uniform, equiformal
• equilibrityThe state of being balanced; equality of weight; equilibrium.
• equinologistA person who studies horses.
• equiparablecomparable, equatable
• equiphileOne who loves horses.
• equipluveA line, drawn on a map, that connects places having the same amount of rainfall in a particular time period
• equipondiousOf equal weight on both sides; balanced.
• equisonAn equisonant note.
• equitantMounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.
• equivorousThat eats horsemeat.
• equuleusAn ancient torture device, possibly resembling a wooden horse, or possibly a rack.
• eradicableCapable of being eradicated.
• erasionThe act of erasing; a rubbing out or obliteration; erasure.
• ErasmineOf or pertaining to Desiderius Erasmus’s Novum Instrumentum omne (his authoritative revision of the Bible’s New Testament [five eds., 1516–1535]), its text, or its variae lectiones.
• ErechtheusA mythological king of Athens
• erga omnesIn relation to everyone.
• ericiushedgehog
• ErigoneDaughter of Aegisthus
• erinaceousOf, pertaining to, or resembling a hedgehog.
• erogateto lay out, deal out or give out
• erogationThe act of giving out, or bestowing.
• erogatoryDoing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations.
• errabundErratic, prone to error.
• errationWandering or straying.
• errhineCausing an increase in mucus within the nose, and hence causing one to sneeze.
• erubescenceThe act of becoming red; reddening.
• erubescentRed; reddish.
• erubesciteSynonym of bornite.
• erucaCaterpillar; larva.
• eruciformShaped like a caterpillar; the term is loosely applied to some larvae with little resemblance to typical caterpillars.
• eructTo burp or belch.
• eructateTo belch, to burp.
• eructationThe act of belching, of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth.
• erugateTo remove wrinkles from.
• erumnyHardship, trouble, calamity.
• erumpentThat emerges, or bursts through; breaking forth.
• ervilbitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia).
• eryngoThe root of sea holly, Eryngium maritimum, formerly candied and taken as confectionery and held to have aphrodisiac properties.
• ErythraeA town of Boeotia situated a little south of the Asopus
• ErythraeaA town in ancient Crete.
• ErythraeanOf, from or relating to Erythrae, Beotia
• escambioA licence formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another person overseas.
• -esceUsed to form verbs from nouns, following the pattern of verbs derived from Latin verbs ending in -esco
• -escenceA process of becoming (growing or increasing in the trait specified by the prefixed stem).
• -escentbeginning to be; becoming
• esculentSuitable for eating; eatable, edible.
• esculic acidAn acid obtained from the horse chestnut
• esculinA coumarin glucoside which exists in horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), California buckeye (Aesculus californica), prickly box (Bursaria spinosa) and in daphnin (the dark green resin of Daphne mezereum).
• -esisUsed to form nouns denoting condition, action, or process.
• espleesThe full profits or products yielded by land, such as hay, pasturage, grain, rents, services, and the like.
• Esquiline HillOne of the seven hills of Rome.
• estimandthat which is being estimated.
• est modus in rebusIt is best to live with moderation; it is best to find a middle ground.
• estoileA six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, as opposed to the straight lines of a mullet.
• estuateTo swell up or rage; to be agitated.
• esurientVery greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager.
• et aliaAnd others; used of things; neuter plural
• et aliaeAnd others; used of females; feminine plural.
• et alibiand elsewhere; used to terminate lists of passages in a text
• et aliiAnd others; used of males, or groups of mixed gender; masculine plural
• et aliosAnd others; used of people, unless exclusively of female gender
• état majorThe staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, and judge advocates, and their noncommissioned assistants.
• Eternal CityNickname for Rome: the capital of Italy.
• etesianPertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.
• ethereousFormed of ether; ethereal.
• EthiopA native or inhabitant of Ethiopia.
• et hoc genus omneAnd all this kind.
• et id genus omneAnd everything of that sort.
• EtneanPertaining to Etna, a volcano in Sicily.
• et seq.And what follows, and following, and in the following [pages, sections, &c.].
• et sim.And other similar items; and the like; and so on.
• et tu, Brute"You too, Brutus" or "even you, Brutus"; expressing a recognition of betrayal.
• et ux."and wife", or "and his wife"
• -etyOften with frequentative force.
• EuboicSynonym of Euboean.
• EudoA male given name of historical usage.
• EudociaA female given name from Ancient Greek.
• EudoxiaA female given name from Ancient Greek.
• euhemerismThe belief that legends and mythology arise from exaggerated descriptions of historical people and events.
• euhemeristSomeone who practices or upholds euhemerism, a person who believes all or most myths and legends arose from historical origins.
• euhemeristicOf or relating to euhemerism.
• EuhemerusAn ancient Greek Sicilian Skeptic philosopher, famed for a lost work proposing most or all mythology derived from historical figures and natural events which became supernatural only through retelling.