How did Vlad the Impaler get his epithet?
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Epithet
//ˈɛp.ɪˌθɛt//
Synonyms for "epithet" (70 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
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13 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
10 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
Translations
81 translations across 33 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἐπίθετον noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- ἐπίθετον noun (term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person)
Arabic
2 entries- صِفَة noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- صِفَة noun (term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person)
Armenian
1 entries- մակդիր noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Belarusian
1 entries- эпі́тэт noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Bulgarian
3 entries- епитет noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- прякор noun (term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person)
- ругатня noun (abusive or contemptuous word or phrase)
Catalan
3 entries- epítet noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- epítet noun (term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person)
- epítet noun (abusive or contemptuous word or phrase)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 修飾語 /修饰语 noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- 稱號 /称号 noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- 綽號 /绰号 noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Czech
1 entries- epiteton noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Danish
3 entries- epitet noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- skældsord noun (abusive or contemptuous word or phrase)
- tilnavn noun (term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person)
Dutch
4 entries- epitheton noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- epitheton noun (term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person)
- epitheton noun (word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species)
- scheldnaam noun (abusive or contemptuous word or phrase)
Esperanto
1 entries- epiteto noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Finnish
4 entries- alalajinimi noun (word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species)
- epiteetti noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- epiteetti noun (term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person)
- haukkumanimi noun (abusive or contemptuous word or phrase)
French
3 entries- épithète noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- épithète noun (term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person)
- épithète noun (abusive or contemptuous word or phrase)
Georgian
1 entries- ეპითეტი noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
German
4 entries- Attribut noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- Beiname noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- Beiname noun (term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person)
- Beiwort noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Greek
1 entries- επίθετο noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Hungarian
2 entries- epitéta noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- jelző noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Italian
4 entries- epiteto noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- epiteto noun (term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person)
- epiteto noun (abusive or contemptuous word or phrase)
- epiteto noun (word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species)
Japanese
2 entries- あだ名 noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- 渾名 noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Kazakh
2 entries- эпитет noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- эпитет noun (word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species)
Latvian
2 entries- epitets noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- epitets noun (term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- epitet noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- epitet noun (word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- epitet noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- epitet noun (word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species)
Persian
2 entries- صفت noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- گواسه noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Polish
3 entries- epitet noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- epitet noun (term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person)
- epitet noun (abusive or contemptuous word or phrase)
Portuguese
1 entries- epíteto noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Romanian
1 entries- epitet noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Russian
2 entries- эпи́тет noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- эпи́тет noun (word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species)
Slovene
1 entries- pridevek noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Spanish
2 entries- epíteto noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- epíteto específico noun (word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species)
Swedish
1 entries- epitet noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Tamil
3 entries- அடைமொழி noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
- அடைமொழி noun (term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person)
- வன்சொல் noun (abusive or contemptuous word or phrase)
Ukrainian
1 entries- епі́тет noun (term used to characterize a person or thing)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Tom was fired for using a racial epithet at work.
Source: tatoeba (10161554)
Sigurd was certainly foreign to Scandinavia; hence the epithet Hunnish, constantly applied to him, and the localising of the legend by the Rhine.
Source: tatoeba (12115800)
She would lean her head for hours on Beatrice's shoulder, only now and then applying to her some childish and endearing epithet.
Source: wiktionary
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