Epithet vs. Sobriquet
Epithetnoun
A term used to characterize a person or thing.
Epithetnoun
A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
Epithetnoun
One of many formulaic words or phrases used in Iliad and the Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.
Epithetnoun
An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
Epithetnoun
(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.
Epithetverb
(transitive) To term; to refer to as.
Epithetnoun
An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
Epithetnoun
Term; expression; phrase.
Epithetverb
To describe by an epithet.
Epithetnoun
a defamatory or abusive word or phrase;
Epithetnoun
descriptive word or phrase
Epithetnoun
an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
Epithetnoun
an epithet used as a term of abuse
Epithet
An epithet (from Greek: ἐπίθετον, epitheton, neuter of ἐπίθετος, epithetos, ) is a byname, or a descriptive term (word or phrase), accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature.
Sobriquetnoun
A familiar name for a person (typically a shortened version of a person’s given name).
Sobriquetnoun
An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
Sobriquetnoun
a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name);
Sobriquetnoun
a person's nickname
Sobriquet
A sobriquet ( SOH-bri-kay), or soubriquet, is a nickname, sometimes assumed, but often given by another, that is descriptive in nature. Distinct from a pseudonym, a sobriquet is typically a familiar name used in place of a real name, without the need of explanation, often becoming more familiar than the original name.
