epithet
A term used to characterize a person or thingA term used to characterize a person or thing.
» Tom's drunken rant included a number of racial epithets.
Meaning
6 sensesA term used to characterize a person or thing.
Beiwort, Epitheton, Attribut
эпи́тетepítet
епі́тетepítet
A term used as a qualifier of the name of a deity in order to designate said deity in a particular aspect or role.
A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
Beiwort, Beiname, Spitzname
One of many formulaic words or phrases used in the Iliad and Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.
An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
Schimpfwort, Schimpfname
a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.
Epitheton
эпи́тетepítet
Examples
3 sentencesTom's drunken rant included a number of racial epithets.
Tom was fired for using a racial epithet at work.
How did Vlad the Impaler get his epithet?
Translations
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Origin
From Middle French épithète, from Latin epithetum, epitheton, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετονFrom Middle French épithète, from Latin epithetum, epitheton, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton, “epithet, adjective”), the neuter of ἐπίθετος (epíthetos, “additional”), from ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi, “to add on”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “in addition”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put”) (suf. possibly related to title in the sense of "ascribed appellation") (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, to do”)). Doublet of epitheton.
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