Eocene

Eocene

See also: eocene, éocène, and Éocène

English

Etymology

eo- +‎ -cene. From Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + καινός (kainós, “new”) and refers to the "dawn" of modern ('new') fauna that appeared during the epoch. Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːəsiːn/

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Adjective

Eocene (comparative more Eocene, superlative most Eocene)

1. (geology) of a geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 56 to 34 million years ago.

Translations

of the Eocene epoch

Catalan: eocènic, eocè French: éocène (fr) German: eozän Polish: eoceński (pl) Portuguese: eoceno Serbo-Croatian: eocenski (sh) m

Proper noun

Eocene

1. (geology) the Eocene epoch

Translations

Eocene epoch

Catalan: Eocè m Czech: eocén m Estonian: eotseen Finnish: eoseenikausi German: Eozän (de) n Greek: Ηώκαινος f (Iókainos) Polish: eocen (pl) m inan Portuguese: Eoceno m Serbo-Croatian: eocen (sh) m Spanish: Eoceno (es) m Swedish: eocen (sv) n

See also

• Appendix:Geologic timescale

References

1. Charles Lyell (1833) Principles of Geology, volume III, book IV, page 392

Further reading

• Eocene on Wikipedia.Wikipedia