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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios, “over a tomb, at a funeral”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “over”) + τάφος (táphos, “burial, tomb, grave, funeral”).
Pronunciation
Noun
epitaphium n (genitive epitaphiī or epitaphī); second declension
- (Late Latin) eulogy; funeral oration
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “epitaphium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- epitaphium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- epitaphium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “epitaphium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “epitaphium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin