epitaph
See also: Epitaph
English
Etymology
Old French epitafe, from Latin epitaphium (“eulogy”), from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios, “relating to a funeral”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + τάφος (táphos, “tomb”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈɛp.ɪˌtɑːf/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈɛp.ɪˌtæf/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
epitaph (plural epitaphs)
- An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.
- A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person.
Translations
inscription on a gravestone
|
commemorative poem or other text
|
Verb
epitaph (third-person singular simple present epitaphs, present participle epitaphing, simple past and past participle epitaphed)
- (intransitive) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
- Template:RQ:Joseph Hall Heaven upon Earth
- The Commons in their speeches epitaph upon him […] "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog."
- Template:RQ:Joseph Hall Heaven upon Earth
- (transitive) To commemorate by an epitaph.
- 1592, Gabriel Harvey, Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets
- Let me rather be epitaphed the inventor of the English Hexameter.
- 1592, Gabriel Harvey, Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets
See also
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English transitive verbs
- en:Burial
- en:Poetry