
[Middle English, cuttlefish, from Latin sēpia, cuttlefish, ink, from Greek sēpiā, cuttlefish, perhaps akin to sēpein, to make rotten.]
1. Film whose color tends toward brown tones rather than shades of gray, giving the image an old-fashioned and sometimes dreamlike quality. Sepia also refers to the brownish color itself, as in sepia tones.
2. Brown color (as in sepia tones) resembling sepia, a brown pigment derived from the inky secretion of a cuttlefish.

Sepia is a dark brown-grey color, named after the rich brown pigment derived from the ink sac of the common cuttlefish Sepia.
The word sepia is the Latinized form of the Greek σηπία, sēpía, cuttlefish.
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| Burnt umber | Camel | Chamoisee | Chestnut | Chocolate | Coffee | Copper | Cordovan | Desert sand | |
| Earth yellow | Ecru | Fallow | Fawn | Field drab | Fulvous | Isabelline | Khaki | Lion | Liver |
| Mahogany | Maroon | Ochre | Raw umber | Redwood | Rufous | Russet | Rust | Sand | Sandy brown |
| Seal brown | Sepia | Sienna | Sinopia | Tan | Taupe | Tawny | Umber | Wenge | Wheat |
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - sepia, sepiabrun farve
adj. - sepiabrun, sepia-
Nederlands (Dutch)
sepiakleurig, donkerbruin, tekening in sepia, sepiakleurige foto
Français (French)
n. - sépia, seiche
adj. - sépia
Deutsch (German)
n. - Sepia, Tintenfisch, Sepiabraun, Sepiazeichnung
adj. - sepiabraun, Sepia-
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σέπια (χρωστική ουσία), μελάνι σουπιάς
adj. - σε χρώμα σέπια
Italiano (Italian)
seppia, color seppia
Português (Portuguese)
n. - sépia (f)
adj. - cor de sépia
Español (Spanish)
n. - sepia, jibia
adj. - de color sepia, a la sepia
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sepia
adj. - sepiabrun, sepiafärgad
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
乌贼, 深褐色, 乌贼墨色, 乌贼墨色的, 使用乌贼墨颜料的
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 烏賊, 深褐色, 烏賊墨色
adj. - 烏賊墨色的, 使用烏賊墨顏料的
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 뼈오징어의 먹물, 세피아 그림물감, 세피아 색의 사진
adj. - 세피아 색의, 세피아 그림물감을 사용한
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 墨汁, セピア
adj. - セピアの, 暗褐色の皮膚をした, セピア色の
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) ألحبار : حيوان مائي هلامي يؤكل (صفه) لون بني داكن
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - דיו חומה, גוון חום המשמש בצילום
adj. - חום-כהה
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