epitaph

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.
2. A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
2. (transitive) To commemorate by an epitaph.

Conceitos

epitáfio

Epitafio

Sinônimos

inscription

epigraph

proverb

inscription on a tombstone

engraving

velediction

obituary

inscription on a tomb

Traduções

epitaffio

épitaphe

epitafio

Epitaph

Grabinschrift

epitafi

Grabschrift

grafschrift

Inschrift

epivaffio

επιτάφιος

inscription

epitafio

المرثية

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɛp.ɪˌtɑːf/

Etimologia (Inglês)

From Old French epitafe, from Late Latin epitaphium (“eulogy”), from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios, “relating to a funeral”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + τάφος (táphos, “tomb”). By surface analysis epi- + -taph.