epiceno

From Latin epicoenus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίκοινος (epíkoinos), based on κοινός (koinós, “common”).

• IPA^(key): /e.piˈt͡ʃɛ.no/
• Rhymes: -ɛno
• Hyphenation: e‧pi‧cè‧no

epiceno (feminine epicena, masculine plural epiceni, feminine plural epicene)

1. (grammar) common (gender)

   Synonyms: promiscuo, ambigenere

From Latin epicoenus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίκοινος (epíkoinos), based on κοινός (koinós, “common”).

• Hyphenation: e‧pi‧ce‧no

epiceno (feminine epicena, masculine plural epicenos, feminine plural epicenas)

1. (grammar, of words for animals) having a fixed grammatical gender

• sobrecomum

• “epiceno”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “epiceno”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin epicoenus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίκοινος (epíkoinos), based on κοινός (koinós, “common”).

• IPA^(key): /epiˈθeno/ [e.piˈθe.no] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /epiˈseno/ [e.piˈse.no] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eno
• Syllabification: e‧pi‧ce‧no

epiceno (feminine epicena, masculine plural epicenos, feminine plural epicenas)

1. (grammar, of gender) common; epicene

epiceno m (plural epicenos)

1. epicene; an epicene word (especially a noun)

   Synonym: nombre epiceno

• “epiceno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025