Why this word is great
APPELLATION — [Noun] A name or title by which someone or something is formally identified, especially one that is descriptive or carries official status. From late Middle English 'appellacion', from Old French 'apellatiun', from Latin 'appellātiō' ("a naming, an appeal"), from 'appellāre' ("to call upon, name, or address"). Unlike "name," a plain and utilitarian handle, or "designation," a functional label assigned for a task, an appellation is a name weighted with ceremony, origin, or essence. It is the "Champagne" stamped on a bottle from that specific, storied hillside; the "Sun King" affixed to Louis XIV; or the "Iron Lady" crystallizing a political essence in two metallic syllables—a verbal artifact that confers identity as much as it describes it, the formal fiction we create to make a thing knowable, and in knowing, to confine it.