epithetn.

/ˈɛpɪθɛt/

Forms: 1500s–1600s epithete, epithite, epethite, (1500s epithat, epythite, epythithe), 1500s– epithet.

Etymology: < Latin epitheton, < Greek ἐπίθετον adjective, neuter of ἐπίθετος attributed, < ἐπιτιθέναι, < ἐπί upon + τιθέναι to place. Compare French epithète. The Greek word was used by grammarians for ‘adjective’, but they did not distinguish between adjectives and nouns in apposition to a name.

a. An adjective indicating some quality or attribute which the speaker or writer regards as characteristic of the person or thing described.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > adjective > [noun] > epithet

epitheton1570

epithet1588

prefix1830

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike Ded. sig. ¶3 Your two last Epithetes, wherein you disgrace the law with rudenesse and barbarisme.

1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good ii. iii. 45 T'expresse whose vilenes, there's no epithite.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Leic. 135 His Epithetes were pregnant with Metaphors.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 31 July (1965) I. 420 I admir'd the exact Geography of Homer... Allmost every Epithet he gives to a Mountain or plain is still just for it.

1788 T. Reid Aristotle's Logic iv. §6. 95 The epithets of pure and modal are applied to syllogisms as well as to propositions.

1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) I. 173 The term barbarous..in Homer..is only used as an epithet of language.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. v. 94 Hollow, empty—is the epithet justly bestowed on Fame.

b. That which gives an epithet to.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) i. 154 To Sparta, then, and Pylos, where doth beat Bright Amathus, the flood, and epithet To all that kingdom.

2. A significant appellation.A spurious word ‘Epithite, a plotter, traitor’, given in modern dictionaries, originated in a misunderstanding of quot. 1607.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > nickname or additional name

to-namec950

eke-name1303

surnamec1330

bynamec1374

nickname1440

addition1472

epitheton1570

by-term1579

epithet1579

agnomination1590

adjunct1598

apathaton1598

byword1598

nurse-name1605

familiar name1611

suradditiona1616

sobriquet1646

agname1652

last name1695

agnomen1809

cognomen1811

soubriquet1818

nickery1823

handle1838

cognomination1843

moniker1851

eponym1863

adname1890

tag1961

1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 61 Christen them by names and epithites nothing agreable or appliante to the thinges themselves.

1607 G. Wilkins Miseries Inforst Mariage F iij Sir Will. Like to a swine. Lord Faulconb. A perfect Epythite: hee feeds on draffe, And wallowes in the mire.

1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. v. 16 Many of these trees..have epithites contrary to the nature of them as they grow in England.

1683 J. Pettus Ess. Metallick Words at Alchimist, in Fleta Minor ii Before we fix our Title or Epithite to the Master of this Science.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. vi. 201 He assumed the proud Epithet of Sultan or Monarch of Tunis and all Barbary.

1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. iv. 129 We..employ the French term of ennui, for want of an equally appropriate epithet in English.

†3. Used for: A term, phrase, expression. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] > term or expression

wordeOE

terma1398

conveyance1586

epithet1600

terminations1600

notion1655

description1826

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. ii. 60 Suffer loue! a good epithite, I do suffer loue indeed, for I loue thee against my will.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. i. 14 A bumbast circumstance, Horribly stuft with Epithites of warre.

4. attributive.

ΚΠ

1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. vi. 227 The epithet-period points to a vast series of bygone ages.

1884 Manch. Examiner 26 May 3/1 To increase the epithet power of our tongue in coining adjectives.

Draft additions 1993

b. An offensive or derogatory expression used of a person; an abusive term; a profanity. Cf. epitheted adj. c.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > profane language

swarec1200

shit-wordc1275

words of villainya1300

filtha1400

reveriec1425

bawdry1589

scurrility1589

bawdy1622

tongue-worm1645

borborology1647

Billingsgatry1673

double entendre1673

smut1698

blackguardism1756

slang1805

epithet1818

dirty word1842

French1845

language1855

bad languagec1863

bestiality1879

swear-word1883

damson-tart1887

comminative1888

double entente1895

curse-word1897

bang-words1906

soldier's farewell1909

strong languagea1910

dirty story1912

dirty joke1913

bullocky1916

shitticism1936

Anglo-Saxonism1944

sweary1994

1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon i. 2 Blockhead, Dunce, Ass, Coxcomb, were the best Epithets he gave poor John.]

1818 ‘A. Burton’ Adventures Johnny Newcome 254 Psalm-singer, an epithet of the greatest possible contempt.

1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) iv. iv. 214 Some dozen..mis-shapen, nine-cornered Dutch oaths and epithets which crowded at once into his gullet.

1864 J. Doran Their Majesties Serv. I. 80 His mother had addressed him..by an epithet referring to his illegitimacy.

1896 Belloc Frog in Bad Child's Bk. Beasts 46 The Frog is justly sensitive To epithets like these.

1929 W. Cuppy How to be Hermit 258 One of them recently read me my horoscope with a richness of epithet that was supposed to have died out with the Elizabethan pamphleteers and a few of the prettier duchesses at the court of Charles the Second.

1981 S. Wentworth Say Hello to Yesterday v. 103 ‘You louse! You swine!’ With every epithet she hit out at him blindly.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

epithetv.

/ˈɛpɪθɛt/

Etymology: < epithet n.

transitive.

†a. To add (a word) as an epithet. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1637 H. Sydenham Serm. ii. 136 Ecclesiasticall honour (Episcopall he epithetes).

b. To apply an epithet to.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > apply epithet to

epithet1628

epithetize1716

1628 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 566 Never was a town better Epithited.

1698 S. Crisp Christ Exalted 88 Here are Whisperings, Surmises, Slanders and Reproaches, and these epethited with being private, evil, insinuated and clandestine.

c. To term, entitle.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)]

nemneOE

nemela1325

namec1384

to lay a name ona1400

christena1470

nominate1545

baptizec1550

denominate1552

dename?1567

enterm1599

epithet1650

designate1676

nomenclate1801

godfather1879

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. Ep. Ded. 434 Francis your Avus, whose death I would epithete Untimely.

1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence ii. 7 Mr. Fox hath now the casual favour of my Pen to be epithited Reverent.

1882 G. Macdonald in Sunday Mag. XI. 80/2 Woeful Miss Witherspin, as Mark had epitheted her.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	epithet
释义	epithetn. /ˈɛpɪθɛt/ Forms: 1500s–1600s epithete, epithite, epethite, (1500s epithat, epythite, epythithe), 1500s– epithet. Etymology: < Latin epitheton, < Greek ἐπίθετον adjective, neuter of ἐπίθετος attributed, < ἐπιτιθέναι, < ἐπί upon + τιθέναι to place. Compare French epithète. The Greek word was used by grammarians for ‘adjective’, but they did not distinguish between adjectives and nouns in apposition to a name. 1. a. An adjective indicating some quality or attribute which the speaker or writer regards as characteristic of the person or thing described. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > adjective > [noun] > epithet epitheton1570 epithet1588 prefix1830 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike Ded. sig. ¶3 Your two last Epithetes, wherein you disgrace the law with rudenesse and barbarisme. 1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good ii. iii. 45 T'expresse whose vilenes, there's no epithite. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Leic. 135 His Epithetes were pregnant with Metaphors. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 31 July (1965) I. 420 I admir'd the exact Geography of Homer... Allmost every Epithet he gives to a Mountain or plain is still just for it. 1788 T. Reid Aristotle's Logic iv. §6. 95 The epithets of pure and modal are applied to syllogisms as well as to propositions. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) I. 173 The term barbarous..in Homer..is only used as an epithet of language. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. v. 94 Hollow, empty—is the epithet justly bestowed on Fame. b. That which gives an epithet to.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) i. 154 To Sparta, then, and Pylos, where doth beat Bright Amathus, the flood, and epithet To all that kingdom. 2. A significant appellation.A spurious word ‘Epithite, a plotter, traitor’, given in modern dictionaries, originated in a misunderstanding of quot. 1607. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > nickname or additional name to-namec950 eke-name1303 surnamec1330 bynamec1374 nickname1440 addition1472 epitheton1570 by-term1579 epithet1579 agnomination1590 adjunct1598 apathaton1598 byword1598 nurse-name1605 familiar name1611 suradditiona1616 sobriquet1646 agname1652 last name1695 agnomen1809 cognomen1811 soubriquet1818 nickery1823 handle1838 cognomination1843 moniker1851 eponym1863 adname1890 tag1961 1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 61 Christen them by names and epithites nothing agreable or appliante to the thinges themselves. 1607 G. Wilkins Miseries Inforst Mariage F iij Sir Will. Like to a swine. Lord Faulconb. A perfect Epythite: hee feeds on draffe, And wallowes in the mire. 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. v. 16 Many of these trees..have epithites contrary to the nature of them as they grow in England. 1683 J. Pettus Ess. Metallick Words at Alchimist, in Fleta Minor ii Before we fix our Title or Epithite to the Master of this Science. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. vi. 201 He assumed the proud Epithet of Sultan or Monarch of Tunis and all Barbary. 1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. iv. 129 We..employ the French term of ennui, for want of an equally appropriate epithet in English. †3. Used for: A term, phrase, expression. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] > term or expression wordeOE terma1398 conveyance1586 epithet1600 terminations1600 notion1655 description1826 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. ii. 60 Suffer loue! a good epithite, I do suffer loue indeed, for I loue thee against my will. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. i. 14 A bumbast circumstance, Horribly stuft with Epithites of warre. View more context for this quotation 4. attributive. ΚΠ 1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. vi. 227 The epithet-period points to a vast series of bygone ages. 1884 Manch. Examiner 26 May 3/1 To increase the epithet power of our tongue in coining adjectives. Draft additions 1993 b. An offensive or derogatory expression used of a person; an abusive term; a profanity. Cf. epitheted adj. c. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > profane language swarec1200 shit-wordc1275 words of villainya1300 filtha1400 reveriec1425 bawdry1589 scurrility1589 bawdy1622 tongue-worm1645 borborology1647 Billingsgatry1673 double entendre1673 smut1698 blackguardism1756 slang1805 epithet1818 dirty word1842 French1845 language1855 bad languagec1863 bestiality1879 swear-word1883 damson-tart1887 comminative1888 double entente1895 curse-word1897 bang-words1906 soldier's farewell1909 strong languagea1910 dirty story1912 dirty joke1913 bullocky1916 shitticism1936 Anglo-Saxonism1944 sweary1994 1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon i. 2 Blockhead, Dunce, Ass, Coxcomb, were the best Epithets he gave poor John.] 1818 ‘A. Burton’ Adventures Johnny Newcome 254 Psalm-singer, an epithet of the greatest possible contempt. 1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) iv. iv. 214 Some dozen..mis-shapen, nine-cornered Dutch oaths and epithets which crowded at once into his gullet. 1864 J. Doran Their Majesties Serv. I. 80 His mother had addressed him..by an epithet referring to his illegitimacy. 1896 Belloc Frog in Bad Child's Bk. Beasts 46 The Frog is justly sensitive To epithets like these. 1929 W. Cuppy How to be Hermit 258 One of them recently read me my horoscope with a richness of epithet that was supposed to have died out with the Elizabethan pamphleteers and a few of the prettier duchesses at the court of Charles the Second. 1981 S. Wentworth Say Hello to Yesterday v. 103 ‘You louse! You swine!’ With every epithet she hit out at him blindly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). epithetv. /ˈɛpɪθɛt/ Etymology: < epithet n. transitive. †a. To add (a word) as an epithet. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1637 H. Sydenham Serm. ii. 136 Ecclesiasticall honour (Episcopall he epithetes). b. To apply an epithet to. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > apply epithet to epithet1628 epithetize1716 1628 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 566 Never was a town better Epithited. 1698 S. Crisp Christ Exalted 88 Here are Whisperings, Surmises, Slanders and Reproaches, and these epethited with being private, evil, insinuated and clandestine. c. To term, entitle. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] nemneOE nemela1325 namec1384 to lay a name ona1400 christena1470 nominate1545 baptizec1550 denominate1552 dename?1567 enterm1599 epithet1650 designate1676 nomenclate1801 godfather1879 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. Ep. Ded. 434 Francis your Avus, whose death I would epithete Untimely. 1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence ii. 7 Mr. Fox hath now the casual favour of my Pen to be epithited Reverent. 1882 G. Macdonald in Sunday Mag. XI. 80/2 Woeful Miss Witherspin, as Mark had epitheted her. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1579v.1628
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