🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

修飾語

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shūshokugo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Epitet/ˈɛp.ɪ.tɛt/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼には多くの異名がある。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality or characteristic regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.

    "Alexander the Great earned the epithet 'the Great' through his extensive military conquests."
  2. 2

    A abusive or contemptuous word or phrase used to express hostility.

    "He shouted an offensive epithet at the driver who cut him off."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the ancient Greek epitheton, meaning 'attributed' or 'added', formed from epi- ('upon, over') and tithenai ('to place'). Passed through Latin epithetum into various European languages, maintaining its core sense of an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.

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