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your last word, written by someone else, edited by stone and time.
means An epitaph is the inscription written on a tomb or gravestone, or a short text composed in memory of a dead person.
from From Greek 'epitaphios,' meaning 'over or upon a tomb' — built from 'epi-' (upon) and 'taphos' (tomb, burial). It passed through Latin and Old French before settling into English, but the bones of the word are pure Greek: a thing said upon the grave.
- means
- Greek for upon the tomb, literally on-grave
- mel blanc
- Looney Tunes voice's grave reads That's all folks
- shakespeare's curse
- His epitaph threatens anyone who moves his bones
- living epitaphs
- Some people commission theirs while still alive
- shortest ever
- A single dot once marked a printer's grave
for instance
oscar wilde's epitaph — "and alien tears will fill for him pity's long-broken urn" — written by himself at père lachaise cemetery, paris
john keats's epitaph — "here lies one whose name was writ in water" — inscribed on his grave in rome, 1821