epitaph
See also: Epitaph
English
Etymology
Old French epitafe, from Latin epitaphium (“eulogy”), from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios, “relating to a funeral”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + τάφος (táphos, “tomb”).
Noun
epitaph (plural epitaphs)
- An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.
- A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person.
Translations
inscription on a gravestone
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commemorative poem or other text
Verb
epitaph (third-person singular simple present epitaphs, present participle epitaphing, simple past and past participle epitaphed)
- (intransitive) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
- Bishop Hall
- The common in their speeches epitaph upon him […] "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog."
- Bishop Hall
- (transitive) To commemorate by an epitaph.
- G. Harvey
- Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters.
- G. Harvey
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