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Epithet

An epithet (from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton) 'adjective', from ἐπίθετος (epíthetos) 'additional'), also a byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) commonly accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a real or fictitious person, place, or thing. It is usually literally descriptive, as in Alexander the Great, Suleiman the Magnificent…

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Linguistics

Literature

Religion

Rhetoric

Usage prior to surnames

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Epithet

Nodes80
Edges79
Triples69
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.025
Components1

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Epithet

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related to Religion · 21
Epithet → Alternatively, Apollo, Apollo Delphinios, Apollo Karneios, Apollo Musagetes, Apollo Pythios, Athena, Delphic Apollo, Greece, In, India, Indo-Iranian, Iran, Muses, Olympia, Phoibos Apollo, Pythian Apollo, Rome, Spartan Carneian, Zeus
related to Literature · 16
Epithet → Achilles, An, Cicero, Discreet Telemachus, Epithets, European, Homer, Homer's, Juno, Peleus, Pelides, Saturnia, The, The Greek, Virgil's Aeneid, When James Joyce
related to Rhetoric · 14
Epithet → An, Bryan Short's, Epithets, France, It, Knowledge, Orators, Rhetoricians, The, The New Rhetoric, These, This, We, With
related to Linguistics · 8
Epithet → Among, An, Epithets, It, Not, The, Walter Burkert, Zeus
related to External links · 5
Epithet → Bibliotheca Augustana, Epithets, Media, Wikimedia CommonsHomer's Epitheta, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
is a · 3
Epithet → adjective or adjectival phrase that characterizes a place, repetitive use of the same word or phrase for the same person or object, result of the fusion of the Olympian divinity with an older one
see also · 2
Epithet → Animal, Proto-Indo-European

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epithets use name also used phrase person richard descriptive word one may place zeus example given byname term abusive rhetoric

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Epithetis aresult of the fusion of the Olympian divinity with an older one0.90text
Epithetis aadjective or adjectival phrase that characterizes a place0.90text
Epithetis arepetitive use of the same word or phrase for the same person or object0.90text
Epithetrelated to External linksWiktionary-logo-en-v20.60section
Epithetrelated to External linksMedia0.60section
Epithetrelated to External linksEpithets0.60section
Epithetrelated to External linksWikimedia CommonsHomer's Epitheta0.60section
Epithetrelated to External linksBibliotheca Augustana0.60section
Epithetrelated to LinguisticsEpithets0.60section
Epithetrelated to LinguisticsIt0.60section
Epithetrelated to LinguisticsAn0.60section
Epithetrelated to LinguisticsNot0.60section

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