Meaning
1 sensesTo term; to refer to as.
He was epitheted "the king of fools".
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?
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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Forms
epithets, epitheting, epitheted, epithetedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.