1. 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"
Word Originlate 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’.
