epitaphium

== Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios, “over a tomb, at a funeral”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “over”) +‎ τάφος (táphos, “burial, tomb, grave, funeral”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛ.pɪˈta.pʰi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.piˈtaː.fi.um] === Noun === epitaphium n (genitive epitaphiī or epitaphī); second declension (Late Latin) eulogy; funeral oration ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== > Italian: pitaffio, pataffio (inherited), → epitafio, epitaffio === References === “epitaphium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "epitaphium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “epitaphium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “epitaphium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “epitaphium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin