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Requiem vs Epitaph - What's the difference?

requiem | epitaph |

As nouns the difference between requiem and epitaph

is that requiem is a mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person while epitaph is an inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.

As a verb epitaph is

to write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.

requiem

English

(wikipedia requiem)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.
  • A musical composition for such a mass.
  • A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.

    • Usage notes

    The Latin Introit, or opening prayer, for a requiem mass starts with the words: : aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. : "Grant them eternal rest, Lord, and may everlasting light shine upon them."

    Coordinate terms

    * dirge, elegy, threnody – funeral songs

    Related terms

    * requiescat

    Derived terms

    * requiem mass * requiem shark

    epitaph

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.
  • A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
  • * Bishop Hall
    • The common in their speeches epitaph upon him "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog."
  • To commemorate by an epitaph.
  • * G. Harvey
    • Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters.

    See also

    * eulogy – oration about the dead, often at funeral * obituary – published writing on the dead * epigraph – quote on a tombstone