Refers to a descriptive word or phrase that modifies a nominal element without an intervening verb. · noun adjunct · epithet (designating or qualifying term, label)
çekim: çoğul épithètes
köken: From Middle French épithète, from Latin epithetum, epitheton, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton, “epithet, adjective”), the neuter of ἐπίθετος (epíthetos, “attributed, added”), from ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi, “to add on”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “in addition”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, to do”)).
Compound of 連体(れんたい) (rentai, “connecting to an uninflectable word”, where 体(たい) is short for 体(たい)言(げん) (taigen, “uninflectable word”)) + 形(けい) (kei, “form”).