epithet

n. name, nickname, title, designation

An epithet (Greek — επιθετον and Latin — epitheton; literally meaning 'imposed') is a descriptive word or phrase that has become a fixed formula. It has various shades of meaning when applied to real or fictitious people, divinities, objects and biological nomenclature.
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(v. t.)
To describe by an epithet.
  

(n.)
Term; expression; phrase.
  

(n.)
An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
  

adpositus| adposita -um| adpositior -or -us| adpositissimus -a -um ADJ
ADJacent| near| accessible| akin; opposite; fit| appropriate| apt; based upon

Noun
1. a defamatory or abusive word or phrase; "sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me"
(synonym) name
(hypernym) defamation, calumny, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job
(hyponym) smear word
2. descriptive word or phrase
(hypernym) word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation