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epitaph
- /ˈɛp.ɪˌtɑːf/ UK
- /ˈɛp.ɪˌtæf/ US
Where it comes from
From Old French epitafe, from Late Latin epitaphium (“eulogy”), from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios, “relating to a funeral”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + τάφος (táphos, “tomb”). By surface analysis epi- + -taph. Compare epitaph.
noun epitaphs
- An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased. The church itself, or at all events the squat and tiny tower, has not altered much since Lamb saw it. But the epitaphs have gone. Search among the ivies and yews of the shady little churchyard will discover a number of flat, weatherworn slabs of stone, but the verses and the signatures have vanished
- A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person. Nam vinci in amore turpissimum putant, not only living, but when their friends are dead, with tombs and monuments, nenias, epitaphs, elegies, inscriptions, pyramids, obelisks, statues, images, pictures, histories, poems, annals, feasts, anniversaries, many ages after (as Plato's scholars did) they w
verb epitaphs · epitaphing · epitaphed
- To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph. The Commons in their speeches epitaph upon him […] "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog."
- To commemorate by an epitaph. Let me rather be epitaphed the inventor of the English Hexameter.
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noun inscription on a gravestone
| Español | epitafio |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 묘지명 myojimyeong, 묘비명 myobimyeong, 에피타프 epitapeu |
| 日本語 | エピタフ epitafu, 墓碑銘 bohimei |
| 中文 | 墓誌銘 /墓志铭 mùzhìmíng, 碑文 bēiwén |
| Português | epitáfio |
| Français | épitaphe |
| Deutsch | Grabinschrift, Epitaph |
| Italiano | epitaffio |
| Русский | эпита́фия epitáfija, надгро́бная на́дпись nadgróbnaja nádpisʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | văn bia |
noun commemorative poem or other text
| Deutsch | Nachruf, Gedenkschrift, Elegie, Gedenkgedicht, Trauergedicht |
|---|---|
| Italiano | epitaffio, discorso funebre |
| Русский | эпита́фия epitáfija |
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