epitheton
See also: Epitheton
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin epitheton. Doublet of epithet.
Noun
[edit]epitheton (plural epithetons or epitheta) (archaic, rare)
- An epithet, an attribute of a person or thing.
- 1570, Iohn Foxe, “The Second Examination and Accusation of Iulius Palmer, at Newbery”, in The Second Volume of the Ecclesiasticall History, Conteynyng the Actes and Monumentes of Martyrs, […], London: […] Iohn Daye, […], →OCLC, page 2123, columns 1–2:
- The next moꝛnyng the xj. of Iuly, Palmer was required to ſubſcribe to certayne Articles, whiche they had dꝛawen out, touchyng the cauſe of his condemnation: in the front wherof, were packt together many haynous termes, as hoꝛrible, heretical, damnable, deuiliſh, and execrable doctrine. […] Palmer. Alter the Epithetons, and I will ſubſcribe.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:epitheton.
Further reading
[edit]- “epitheton, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “epitheton, n.”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 1977, column 3.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]epitheton n (plural epitheta, no diminutive)
- epithet (term used to characterise someone or something)
- epithet (term used as a descriptive substitute)
- (taxonomy) epithet
Derived terms
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛˈpɪ.tʰɛ.tɔn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈpiː.te.ton]
- Hyphenation: e‧pi‧the‧ton
Noun
[edit]epitheton n (genitive epithetī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | epitheton | epitheta |
| genitive | epithetī | epithetōrum |
| dative | epithetō | epithetīs |
| accusative | epitheton | epitheta |
| ablative | epithetō | epithetīs |
| vocative | epitheton | epitheta |
References
[edit]- “epitheton”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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