different between epithet vs metamorphosis

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

First attested in 1533, from Latin metamorph?sis, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (metamórph?sis), from ???? (metá, “change”) + ????? (morph?, “form”). Analyzable as meta- +? -morph +? -osis

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?t??m??f?s?s/, /?m?t?m???f??s?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m????m??f?s?s/
• (one pronunciation) Rhymes: -??s?s
• Hyphenation: met?a?mor?pho?sis

Noun

metamorphosis (countable and uncountable, plural metamorphoses)

1. A transformation, such as one performed by magic.
2. A noticeable change in character, appearance, function or condition.
3. (biology) A change in the form and often habits of an animal after the embryonic stage during normal development. (e.g. the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly or a tadpole into a frog.)
4. (pathology) A change in the structure of a specific body tissue. Usually degenerative.

Derived terms

Related terms

• metamorphic
• metamorphose
• metamorphosize
• metamorphism

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