English-Italian translations for epithet

epitetoIl Commissario Mandelson vuole pertanto passare alla storia sotto il vergognoso epiteto di affamatore? Does Mr Mandelson thus want to go down in history under the shameful epithet of someone who was responsible for starvation?

A term used to characterize a person or thing
One of many formulaic words or phrases used in the ''Iliad'and ''Odyssey'to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing
A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name
To term; to refer to as

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