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Epithet vs Etiquette - What's the difference?

epithet | etiquette |

As nouns the difference between epithet and etiquette

is that epithet is a term used to characterize a person or thing while etiquette is tag, label.

epithet

English

Noun

{{examples-right, sense=biology: part of scientific name of plants, fungi and bacteria, examples=*In Cannabis sativa'' the word ''sativa is a specific epithet . * In Festuca ovina'' subsp. ''guestphalica'' the word ''guestphalica is an infraspecific epithet .}} (en noun)
  • A term used to characterize a person or thing.
  • A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
  • An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, title=The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity?, author=Eric L. Goldstein
    • , passage=Part of this process was the elaboration of new terms for the Jew, especially the increasingly popular epithet “kike”.}}
  • (biology) 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (descriptive substitute) cognomen

    etiquette

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.
  • The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.
  • * 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
    • Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.
  • A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail.

    • Quotations

    * 1885 , *: If you think we are worked by strings, / Like a Japanese marionette, / You don't understand these things / It is simply Court etiquette . * 2001 , Eric R. Wolf, Sydel Silverman, Aram A. Yengoyan, Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World , page 182 *: These then influence other groups, who recut and reshape their patterns of interpersonal etiquettes to fit those utilized by the tone-setting group.

    Related terms

    * etiquettal * jetiquette * netiquette