different between byname vs epithet

English

Alternative forms

• by-name

Etymology

From by- +? name. Cognate with Dutch bijnaam (“nickname”), German Beiname (“nickname, epithet”), Swedish binamn, Danish binavn and Norwegian Bokmål binavn.

Noun

byname (plural bynames)

1. (archaic, historical) A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname.
2. (archaic, historical) A nickname.
3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A pseudonym; nom-de-plume.
4. (Germanic paganism) A ritual title for a god or goddess used in Heathenry.

Synonyms

• cognomen
• sobriquet
• to-name

Hypernyms

• name

Translations

Verb

byname (third-person singular simple present bynames, present participle bynaming, simple past and past participle bynamed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To assign a byname to.

References

• byname at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

• baymen

English

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”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p?.??t/
• Hyphenation: ep?i?thet

Noun

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 the Iliad and 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.

Synonyms

• (descriptive substitute): cognomen

Derived terms

• epithetic
• epithetical
• epithetically
• epithetise, epithetize
• epithetism

Translations

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.