- (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....
- 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...
-
tangential ****ociations with Vlad the Impaler,
voivode of Wallachia,
whose byname 'Drăculea'
resembles that of Dracula. Stoker's
description of Dracula's...
-
Canadian is the
byname used in some
countries for the
descendants of the
birch bark
canoe that was used by the
indigenous peoples of
Northern America as...
- a
title of rank. He was also
known as "the Wild", as
witnessed by such
bynames as se wild,
salvage and in Latin, silvaticus.
According to
Susan Reynolds:...
- 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...
-
tutoring members of the nobilities. Ibn al-Haytham is
sometimes given the
byname al-Baṣrī
after his birthplace, or al-Miṣrī ("the Egyptian"). Al-Haytham...
