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Definition epithet

Etymology

From Middle French épithète, from Latin, from Ancient Greek ???????? (epítheton, “epithet, adjective”), the neuter of ???????? (epíthetos, “attributed, added”), from ????????? (epitíth?mi, “to add on”), from ???- (epi-, “in addition”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “to put”) (from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to put, to do”)).

Noun

Examples (term to characterize)
Examples (descriptive substitute)
Examples (biology: part of scientific name of plants, fungi and bacteria)

epithet (plural epithets)

  1. A term used to characterize a person or thing.
  2. A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
  3. One of many formulaic words or phrases used in Iliad and the Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.
  4. An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
  5. (taxonomy) A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.

Verb

epithet (third-person singular simple present epithets, present participle epitheting, simple past and past participle epitheted)

  1. (transitive) To term; to refer to as.

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PITH 9
TETH 6
THEE 6
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ETH 5
HEP 8
HET 5
HIE 5
HIP 8
HIT 5
PEE 6
PEH 8
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PIE 6
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TEE 3
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THE 5
TIE 3
TIP 6
TIT 3
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EH 4
ET 2
HE 4
HI 4
IT 2
PE 5
PI 5
TI 2

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