epithet

noun · verbB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

epithets

1.
A term used to characterize a person or thing.
2.
(mythology) A term used as a qualifier of the name of a deity in order to designate said deity in a particular aspect or role.
3.
A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
Đồng nghĩa: cognomen, eponym, surname
4.
One of many formulaic words or phrases used in the Iliad and Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.
5.
An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
6.
(taxonomy) 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.

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verb

V_es/s

epithets

V_ing/Gerund

epitheting

V_ed/pp

epitheted

1.
(transitive)To term; to refer to as.
He was epitheted "the king of fools".

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Đồng nghĩa

cognomen eponym surname bynameto-name

Cùng gốc / liên quan

epithetrygeneric epithetepitheticepitheticalepitheticallyepithetise,epithetizeepithetismspecies epithetsubspecific epithet

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From Middle French épithète, from Latin epithetum, epitheton, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epithet, adjective), the neuter of ἐπίθετος (additional), from ἐπιτίθημι (to add on), from ἐπι-- + τίθημι (suf. possibly related to title in the sense of "ascribed appellation") (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (to put, to do)). epitheton.