epithet

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁ep-
2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éps
3. Proto-Indo-European*h₁épi
4. Proto-Hellenic*epí
5. Ancient Greekἐπί (epí)
6. Ancient Greekἐπῐ- (epĭ-)
7. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
8. Proto-Indo-European*dʰédʰeh₁ti
9. Ancient Greekτῐ́θημῐ (tĭ́thēmĭ)
10. Ancient Greekἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi)
11. Ancient Greekἐπίθετος (epíthetos)
12. Ancient Greekἐπίθετον (epítheton)
13. Latinepitheton
14. Middle Frenchépithète
15. English todayepithet

From 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.

Words from the same roots