Definitions
a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
Word origin
From Middle French épithète, from Latin epithetum, epitheton, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton, “epithet, adjective”), the neuter of ἐπίθετος (epíthetos, “additional”), from ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi, “to add on”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “in addition”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put”) (suf. possibly related to title in the sense of "ascribed appellation") (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, to do”)). Doublet of epitheton.
Used in a sentence
“She would lean her head for hours on Beatrice's shoulder, only now and then applying to her some childish and endearing epithet.”
“(esp. Germanic paganism)”
“Part of this process was the elaboration of new terms for the Jew, especially the increasingly popular epithet “kike”.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Descriptive label”7 letters
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