Etymology
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Old French epitafe, from Latin epitaphium (“eulogy”), from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios, “relating to a funeral”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + τάφος (táphos, “tomb”).
Pronunciation
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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
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inscription on a gravestone
- Afrikaans: epitaaf
- Armenian: տապանագիր (hy) (tapanagir), շիրմագիր (hy) (širmagir), գերեզմանագիր (hy) (gerezmanagir), դամբանագիր (hy) (dambanagir)
- Azerbaijani: epitafiya
- Belarusian: эпітафія f (epitafija), надмагільны надпіс m (nadmahilʹny nadpis), магільны надпіс m (mahilʹny nadpis)
- Bulgarian: надгробен надпис m (nadgroben nadpis)
- Catalan: epitafi m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 墓誌銘／墓志铭 (zh) (mùzhìmíng), 碑文 (zh) (bēiwén)
- Czech: epitaf m, náhrobní (cs) nápis (cs) m
- Dutch: grafschrift (nl) n
- Esperanto: tomboskribo
- Estonian: hauakiri
- Finnish: hautakirjoitus (fi), epitafi
- French: épitaphe (fr) f
- Georgian: ეპიტაფია (eṗiṭapia)
- German: Grabinschrift (de) f; (rare, elevated) Epitaph (de) n
- Hungarian: sírfelirat (hu)
- Icelandic: grafskrift (is) f
- Ido: epitafo (io)
- Indonesian: epitaf (id)
- Interlingua: epitaphio
- Irish: feartlaoi f
- Italian: epitaffio (it) m
- Japanese: エピタフ (epitafu), 墓碑銘 (ja) (ぼひめい, bohimei)
- Kazakh: құлпытастағы жазу (qūlpytastağy jazu), эпитафия (épitafiä)
- Korean: 묘지명(墓誌銘) (ko) (myojimyeong), 묘비명(墓碑銘) (ko) (myobimyeong), 에피타프 (epitapeu)
- Latin: titulus m, epitaphium n
- Malay: epitaf
- Persian: مزارنوشته (mazârnevešte), گورنوشته
- Polish: epitafium (pl) n
- Portuguese: epitáfio (pt) m
- Russian: эпита́фия (ru) f (epitáfija), надгро́бная на́дпись f (nadgróbnaja nádpisʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: leac-sgrìobhadh m
- Spanish: epitafio (es) m
- Swedish: epitafium (sv) n, epitaf (sv) n
- Ukrainian: епіта́фія f (epitáfija), намоги́льний на́пис m (namohýlʹnyj nápys)
- Uzbek: epitafiya
- Vietnamese: văn bia
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commemorative poem or other text
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.
1606, Joseph Hall, Heaven upon Earth:The Commons in their speeches epitaph upon him […] "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog."
- (transitive) To commemorate by an epitaph.
1592, Gabriel Harvey, Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets:Let me rather be epitaphed the inventor of the English Hexameter.
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