- (epítheton) 'adjective', from ἐπίθετος (epíthetos) 'additional'), also a
byname, is a
descriptive term (word or phrase)
commonly accompanying or occurring...
- A
toponymic surname or
habitational surname or
byname is a
surname or
byname derived from a
place name,
which included names of
specific locations, such...
- The
Codex Gigas opened to the page with the
distinctive portrait of the
Devil from
which the text
received its
byname, the Devil's Bible....
- chant". "Paeon" was also the name of a
divine physician and an
epithet ("
byname") of Apollo. The
basis of the word παιάν is *παιάϝων." Its
ultimate etymology...
- Dasa (Sanskrit: दास, romanized: Dāsa) is a
Sanskrit word
found in
ancient Indian texts such as the Rigveda, Pali canon, and the Arthashastra. The term...
-
described as
three maiden goddesses, the
Erinys Telphousia was
usually a
byname for the
wrathful goddess Demeter, who was
worshipped under the
title of...
- English, it is
pronounced "Finn" (/fɪn/ FIN) or "Fyun". It is
derived from a
byname meaning "white" or "fair-haired". It is the
original version of a name later...
- as 1187 in the
Topographia Hibernica of
Giraldus Cambrensis,
while the
byname "lionheart" (le quor de lion) is
first recorded in Ambroise's L'Estoire...
-
medieval Irish literature,
several real and
legendary kings were
given the
byname 'red hand' or 'red handed' to
signify that they were
great warriors. One...
- the
contrary byname Christian den Gode (Christian the Good) in Denmark, but this is apocryphal.
According to
Danish historians, no
bynames have been given...
