epithet

大学

n. 浑名, 绰号, 称号

发音

US /ˈɛp.ɪˌθɛt/

词形变化

epithets 复数 epithets epitheting epithets 三单 epitheting 现在分词 epitheted 过去式 epitheted 过去分词

别名

epithite

教材释义与例句

名词

绰号；浑名

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A term used to characterize a person or thing.

    称号

    绰号

    修饰语

  2. 2.

    A term used as a qualifier of the name of a deity in order to designate said deity in a particular aspect or role.

    宗教 神话 哲学
  3. 3.

    A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.

  4. 4.

    One of many formulaic words or phrases used in the Iliad and Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.

  5. 5.

    An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.

  6. 6.

    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.

    生物
v.
  1. 1.

    To term; to refer to as.

    及物

    He was epitheted "the king of fools".

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

name

上位词 10

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相关短语

specific epithet [医]种名形容词 infraspecific epithet subspecific epithet species epithet generic epithet

词源

From Middle French épithète, from Latin epithetum, epitheton, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton, “epithet, adjective”), the neuter of ἐπίθετος (epíthetos, “additional”), from ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi, “to add on”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “in addition”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put”) (suf. possibly related to title in the sense of "ascribed appellation") (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, to do”)). Doublet of epitheton.

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