elogium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēlogium (“short saying, inscription”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἐλεγεῖον (elegeîon, “elegy”), from ἔλεγος (élegos, “song, melody”).

Noun

elogium (plural elogia or elogiums)

1. a eulogy

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐλεγεῖον (elegeîon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eːˈlo.ɡi.um/, [eːˈɫ̪ɔɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈlo.d͡ʒi.um/, [eˈlɔːd͡ʒium]

Noun

ēlogium n (genitive ēlogiī or ēlogī); second declension

1. short saying or sentence:
   1. short maxim
   2. inscription on a tombstone
   3. clause in a will
   4. (law) judicial statement, extract, summary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēlogium	ēlogia
Genitive	ēlogiī ēlogī1	ēlogiōrum
Dative	ēlogiō	ēlogiīs
Accusative	ēlogium	ēlogia
Ablative	ēlogiō	ēlogiīs
Vocative	ēlogium	ēlogia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Catalan: elogi
• → English: elogium
• French: éloge
• Galician: eloxio
• Italian: elogio
• Portuguese: elogio
• Spanish: elogio

References

• “elogium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “elogium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• elogium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• elogium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the epitaph: elogium in sepulcro incisum
    
• “elogium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• elogium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016