different between epithet vs appellative

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.

English

Etymology

From the Late Latin appell?t?vus, from the stem appella- (“to call”), with the adjectival suffix -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?l?t?v/

Adjective

appellative (not comparable)

1. (grammar) of or pertaining to an appellative noun or common noun
2. of or pertaining to ascribing names

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Translations

Noun

appellative (plural appellatives)

1. a common noun
2. an epithet

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Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.p?.la.tiv/
• Homophone: appellatives

Adjective

appellative

1. feminine singular of appellatif

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ap.pel.la??ti?.u?e/, [äp??l??ä??t?i?u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ap.pel.la?ti.ve/, [?p??l???t?i?v?]

Adjective

appell?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of appell?t?vus