Ĕp'i-tăph, n.
(ĕp'ĭ-tăf), n. [Fr. épitaphe, Lat. epitaphium, Gr. ἐπιτάφιον, from ἐπιτάφιος, on, or at, a tomb, belonging to a tomb, from ἐπί and τάφος, tomb.] 1. An inscription on a monument, in honor or in memory of the dead.
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. Shak.
Sense 2. A brief descriptive sentence, in prose or verse, formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that on Alexander: “Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis.”