English-Thai Dictionary

epitaph

N คำจารึก บน หลุมฝังศพ  inscription kam-ja-ruek-bon-lum-fang-sob

 

epitaph

N คำพูด หรือ ข้อความ สั้นๆ  ที่ ทำ ขึ้น เพื่อ ระลึกถึง ผู้ตาย  velediction kam-phud-rue-kor-kwam-san-san-ti-tam-kuen-puea-ra-luek-tueng-phu-tai

 

epitaphist

N ผู้กล่าว คำสรรเสริญ ผู้ตาย 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EPITAPH

n.[Gr. a sepulcher. ] 1. An inscription on a monument, in honor or memory of the dead.
The epitaphs of the present day are crammed with fulsome compliments never merited.
Can you look forward to the honor of a decorated coffin, a splendid funeral, a towering monument--it may be a lying epitaph.
2. An eulogy, in prose or verse, composed without any intent to be engraven on a monument, as that on Alexander:
"Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis. "

 

EPITAPHIAN

a.Pertaining to an epitaph.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EPITAPH

Ep "i *taph, n. Etym: [F. épitaphe, L. epitaphium a funeral oration, fr. Gr. Cenotaph. ]

 

1. An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription. Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. Shak.

 

2. A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis. "

 

EPITAPH

EPITAPH Ep "i *taph, v. t.

 

Defn: To commemorate by an epitaph. [R.] Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters. G. Harvey.

 

EPITAPH

EPITAPH Ep "i *taph, v. i.

 

Defn: To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph. [R.] The common in their speeches epitaph upon him. .. "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog. " Bp. Hall.

 

EPITAPHER

EPITAPHER Ep "i *taph `er, n.

 

Defn: A writer of epitaphs. Nash.

 

EPITAPHIAL; EPITAPHIAN

EPITAPHIAL; EPITAPHIAN Ep `i *taph "i *al, Ep `i *taph "i *an, a.

 

Defn: Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph. The noble Pericles in his epitaphian speech. Milton. Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally. Lowell.

 

EPITAPHIC

EPITAPHIC Ep `i *taph "ic, a.

 

Defn: Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian. -- n.

 

Defn: An epitaph. Udall.

 

EPITAPHIST

EPITAPHIST Ep "i *taph `ist, n.

 

Defn: An epitapher.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

epitaph

ep i taph |ˈepiˌtaf ˈɛpəˌtæf | ▶noun a phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, esp. as an inscription on a tombstone. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French epitaphe, via Latin from Greek epitaphion ‘funeral oration, ’ neuter of ephitaphios ‘over or at a tomb, ’ from epi ‘upon ’ + taphos ‘tomb. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

epitaph

epitaph |ˈɛpɪtɑːf, -taf | ▶noun a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone. • something by which a person, time, or event will be remembered: the story makes a sorry epitaph to a great career. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French epitaphe, via Latin from Greek epitaphion ‘funeral oration ’, neuter of ephitaphios ‘over or at a tomb ’, from epi ‘upon ’ + taphos ‘tomb ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

epitaph

epitaph noun the epitaphs on their tombstones: elegy, commemoration, obituary; inscription, legend.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

epitaph

epitaph noun an epitaph on a tombstone: elegy, commemoration, obituary, funeral oration; inscription, engraving, etching, legend.

 

Duden Dictionary

Epitaph

Epi taph Substantiv, Neutrum , das Epitaphium |Epit a ph |das Epitaph; Genitiv: des Epitaphs, Plural: die Epitaphe lateinisch epitaphium < griechisch epitáphion, eigentlich = zum Grab Gehörendes 1 a bildungssprachlich Grabinschrift b bildungssprachlich Gedenktafel mit Inschrift für einen Verstorbenen an einer Kirchenwand oder einem Pfeiler 2 katholische Kirche in den orthodoxen Kirchen am Karfreitag aufgestelltes Christusbild

 

Epitaphium

Epi ta phi um Substantiv, Neutrum , das Epitaph |Epit a phium |das Epitaphium; Genitiv: des Epitaphiums, Plural: die Epitaphien lateinisch epitaphium < griechisch epitáphion, eigentlich = zum Grab Gehörendes 1 a bildungssprachlich Grabinschrift b bildungssprachlich Gedenktafel mit Inschrift für einen Verstorbenen an einer Kirchenwand oder einem Pfeiler 2 katholische Kirche in den orthodoxen Kirchen am Karfreitag aufgestelltes Christusbild

 

French Dictionary

épitaphe

épitaphe n. f. nom féminin Inscription sur un tombeau. Note Technique Attention au genre féminin de ce nom: une épitaphe. Note Sémantique Ne pas confondre avec pierre tombale, monument qui recouvre une tombe.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

epitaph

ep i taph /épɪtæ̀f |-tɑ̀ːf /名詞 C 1 墓碑銘 〘墓碑に刻んで故人を追憶する短文 〙.2 碑文的短文 [詩 ](→epigraph ).