A term in rhetoric for attributive adjectives and appositions. The term is used particularly in figures of speech of expansion, especially in unusual semantic collocations or in special characterizations like William the Conqueror or Richard the...

Attachment of an etymologically unmotivated sound to a word. For contrast, epenthesis, prothesis. For example, ME soun>Mod. Eng. sound (from Lat. sonus). ( homonymy) language change, sound...

An epithet (Greek — ἐπίθετον and Latin — epitheton; literally meaning 'imposed') is a descriptive word or phrase that has become a fixed formula. It has various shades of meaning when applied to real or fictitious people, divinities,...