From Middle French épithète, from Latin epithetum, epitheton, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον ("epithet, adjective"), the neuter of ἐπίθετος, from ἐπιτίθημι, from ἐπι-- + τίθημι (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ("to put, to do")).
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