epitheton

Learned borrowing from Latin epitheton. Doublet of epithet.

epitheton (plural epithetons or epitheta) (archaic, rare)

1. 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.

• “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.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton).

• IPA^(key): /eːˈpi.teː.tɔn/

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• Hyphenation: e‧pi‧the‧ton

epitheton n (plural epitheta, no diminutive)

1. epithet (term used to characterise someone or something)
2. epithet (term used as a descriptive substitute)
3. (taxonomy) epithet

• epitheton ornans

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛˈpɪ.tʰɛ.tɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈpiː.t̪e.t̪on]
• Hyphenation: e‧pi‧the‧ton

epitheton n (genitive epithetī); second declension

1. epithet

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

• “epitheton”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press