French-English translations for épithète

• epithet
  I would like to add another epithet: creative. Je voudrais y ajouter une autre épithète: créative.
  Does Mr Mandelson thus want to go down in history under the shameful epithet of someone who was responsible for starvation? M. Mandelson tient-il donc à entrer dans le livre d'histoire sous l'épithète infâmante d'affameur?
• attributive
  In "this big house", "big" is attributive, whereas in "this house is big", it is predicative
  In "this tiger is a man-eater," "man" is an attributive noun
  In "this big house," "big" is an attributive, while in "this house is big," it is a predicative.
• attribute
  His finest attribute is his kindness.
  In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".
  This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
• attributive adjective
  The word “red” in “the red balloon” is an attributive adjective.

Related words

• épithète déterminant
• épithète spécifique
• nom épithète