épithète

Refers to a descriptive word or phrase that modifies a nominal element without an intervening verb.; epithet (designating or qualifying term, label)

“l'épithète malsonnante de bon” — the offensive epithet of good

From Middle French épithète, from Latin epithetum, epitheton, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton, “epithet, adjective”), the neuter of ἐπίθετος (epíthetos, “attributed, added”), from ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi, “to add on”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “in addition”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, to do”)).