- (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....
-
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...
-
modern Gaelic form of
Cainnech is Coinneach; the name was
derived from a
byname meaning "handsome", "comely". The
second part of the name
Cinaed is derived...
-
tangential ****ociations with Vlad the Impaler,
voivode of Wallachia,
whose byname 'Drăculea'
resembles that of Dracula. Stoker's
description of Dracula's...
- A
coachman is an
employee who
drives a
coach or carriage, a horse-drawn
vehicle designed for the
conveyance of p****engers. A
coachman has also been called...
- Donn is a
given name in the
Irish language. Donn was
originally a
byname,
which had two meanings: one of the
meanings was "brown"; the
other was "chief"...
- (chieftains) of the Normans.
There are no
contemporary accounts of William's
byname, 'Longsword', either; it
appears first in
later eleventh-century sources...
- of English) but it was not
until the 1980s that it
began to be used as a
byname for
defective Asian English.
While the term may
refer to
spoken English...
