epithet: [16] Etymologically, an epithet is a word that is ‘put on’ to or ‘added’ to another. The term comes from Greek epítheton, which meant literally ‘addition’, but was used by Greek grammarians for ‘adjective’. It was a derivative of epitithénai ‘put on, add’, a compound verb formed from the prefix epí- ‘on’ and tithénai ‘place, put’ (a relative of English do and theme). By the time the word reached English (via French or Latin) it had moved over from the vocabulary of the grammarian to that of the layman, in the sense ‘descriptive appellation’. => do, theme
epithet (n.)
"descriptive name for a person or thing," 1570s, from Middle French épithète or directly from Latin epitheton (source also of Spanish epíteto, Portuguese epitheto, Italian epiteto), from Greek epitheton "an epithet; something added," noun use of adjective (neuter of epithetos) "attributed, added, assumed," from epitithenai "to add on," from epi "in addition" (see epi-) + tithenai "to put" (see theme). Related: Epithetic; epithetical.
雙語例句
1. " I wonder what he'll find to match this epithet, commented another man.
“ 看他對上一句什么, ”又一個說.
來自漢英文學 - 中國現代小說
2. In ` Alfred the Great', ` the Great'is an epithet.
"阿爾弗雷德大帝"中的"大帝 " 是個稱號.
來自辭典例句
3. The specific epithet variously did or did not repeat a key word from the phrase - name.
種加詞不同程度地重復或不重復同片語名稱的某個關鍵詞.
來自辭典例句
4. An epithet that sums up my feelings.
簡潔地表達了我思想感情的形容詞.
來自互聯網
5. Indeed, some observers fear that anti - science epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless.