名詞 epitaph:

1. an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there
2. a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person

1. The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
   墓志銘的難能可貴之處是真實。
2. Believe a woman or an epitaph, or any other thing that's false, before you trust in critics.
   與其相信批評家，不如相信女人、墓志銘、甚至任何一種騙人的東西好了。
3. He tried to read the epitaph on the monument.
   他試圖讀出墓碑上的銘文。

ep.i.taph

n.（名詞）
An inscription on a tombstone in memory of the one buried there.
墓志銘：刻于墓碑上用以懷念死者的碑銘
A brief literary piece commemorating a deceased person.
悼文：紀念死者的短篇文學作品

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Old French epitaphe
源自 古法語 epitaphe
from Latin epitaphium
源自 拉丁語 epitaphium
from Greek epitaphion [from neuter of] epitaphios [funerary]
源自 希臘語 epitaphion [] 源自epitaphios的中性詞 [葬禮]
epi- [epi-]
epi- [前綴，表.在…之前.]
taphos [tomb]
taphos [墳?zāi)筣

【引伸】
ep.itaph.ic
adj.（形容詞）