- (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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
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
Codex Gigas opened to the page with the
distinctive portrait of the
Devil from
which the text
received its
byname, the Devil's Bible....
- A
coachman is a
person who
drives a
coach or carriage, or
similar horse-drawn vehicle. A
coachman has also been
called a coachee, coachy, whip, or hackman...
-
Eustache Deschamps (1346 – 1406 or 1407) was a
French poet,
byname Morel, in
French "Nightshade".
Deschamps was born in Vertus. He
received lessons in...
- 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...
