epitaphion
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An embroidered veil showing the dead body of Jesus Christ.
Example Sentences
- "Visitors kept dropping by, following the custom of seeing as many epitaphoi as possible; the more you visit, the better your luck for the coming year. I crawled under the epitaphion, too, and Spiridoula tipped me off that people take flowers from the epitaphion home with them after the evening service to save as filakta — protective amulets."
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπῐτᾰ́φῐον (epĭtắphĭon).