Feminine

épithète

Meaning

Concepts

(adjective, attributive, feminine) Refers to a descriptive word or phrase that modifies a nominal element without an intervening verb.
(feminine) Refers to a descriptive word or phrase that modifies a nominal element without an intervening verb.
(feminine) epithet (designating or qualifying term, label)

Pronounced as (IPA)

/e.pi.tɛt/

From Middle French épithète, from Latin epithetum, epitheton, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton, “epithet, adjective”), the neuter of ἐπίθετος (epíthetos, “attributed, added”), from ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi, “to add on”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “in addition”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, to do”)).