epitheton

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noun

An epithet, an attribute of a person or thing.

OriginLatin epitheton →
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Meanings

nounepitheton (plural epithetons or epitheta)

plural epithetons · plural epitheta

  1. archaicrareAn epithet, an attribute of a person or thing.
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    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.

    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

Origin

  1. Latinepitheton
  2. Englishepitheton

Learned borrowing from Latin epitheton. Doublet of epithet.

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epitheton. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/epitheton

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