英语词汇“epithet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

ep·i·thet

(ĕpə-thĕt′)

a. A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great.

b. A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person, such as The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln.

2. A disparaging or abusive word or phrase.

3. Biology A word in the scientific name of an organism following the name of the genus and denoting a species, subspecies, variety, or cultivar, as sativa in Lactuca sativa.

[Latin epitheton, from Greek, neuter of epithetos, added, attributed, from epitithenai, epithe-, to add to : epi-, epi- + tithenai, to place; see dhē- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

ep′i·thetic, ep′i·theti·cal adj.

单词	epithet
释义	ep·i·thet (ĕpə-thĕt′) n. 1. a. A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great. b. A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person, such as The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln. 2. A disparaging or abusive word or phrase. 3. Biology A word in the scientific name of an organism following the name of the genus and denoting a species, subspecies, variety, or cultivar, as sativa in Lactuca sativa. [Latin epitheton, from Greek, neuter of epithetos, added, attributed, from epitithenai, epithe-, to add to : epi-, epi- + tithenai, to place; see dhē- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] ep′i·thetic, ep′i·theti·cal adj.
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