evangelium

See also: Evangelium and evangélium

Czech

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛvaŋɡɛlɪjum]

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Noun

evangelium n

1. gospel (an account of the life, death, resurrection, and teachings of Jesus)

   novozákonní evangelia ― new testament gospels

   evangelium podle Matouše ― the Gospel According to Matthew

Declension

Declension of evangelium (semisoft neuter foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	evangelium	evangelia
genitive	evangelia	evangelií
dative	evangeliu	evangeliím
accusative	evangelium	evangelia
vocative	evangelium	evangelia
locative	evangeliu	evangeliích
instrumental	evangeliem	evangelii

Related terms

• evangelický
• evangelista
• evangelík

Further reading

• “evangelium”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “evangelium”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “evangelium”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Danish

Alternative forms

• evangelie

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [evɑŋˈɡ̊eːljɔm]

Noun

evangelium n (singular definite evangeliet, plural indefinite evangelier)

1. (religion, Christianity) gospel (the teachings of Jesus Christ)
2. (religion, Christianity) Gospel (one of the first four books of the New Testament)

Declension

Declension of evangelium

gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	evangelium	evangeliet	evangelier	evangelierne
genitive	evangeliums	evangeliets	evangeliers	evangeliernes

Derived terms

• evangelietekst
• juleevangelium
• evangelist
• evangelisk
• evangelisk-luthersk

References

• “evangelium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faroese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”).

Noun

evangelium n (genitive singular evangelis, plural evangelium)

1. gospel

Declension

Declension of evangelium

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	evangelium	evangeliið	evangelium	evangeliini
accusative	evangelium	evangeliið	evangelium	evangeliini
dative	evangelii	evangelinum	evangelium	evangeliunum
genitive	evangelis	evangelisins	evangelia	evagelianna

Latin

Alternative forms

• euangelium, euuangelium, evuangelium, euguangelium (orthographic)
• Evangelium, Euangelium, Euuangelium, Evuangelium, Euguangelium (letter-case)
• evangelia, Evangelia f (grammar)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”). Written as a Latin word first in ecclesiastical writers.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛu̯.aŋˈɡɛ.li.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.van̠ʲˈd͡ʒɛː.li.um]
• In the Classical pronunciation the word starts with an eu diphthong, which, coming from Greek, is dichronic like ae and oe. Compare nauarchus.

Noun

evangelium n (genitive evangeliī or evangelī); second declension

1. good news

   Synonyms: bona annūntiātiō, bona nūntiātiō, bonī nūntiī (pl.)

2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) the Christian doctrine, gospel; also its preaching
   1. any doctrine
   2. the Gospel (book) and any of its manuscripts

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	evangelium	evangelia
genitive	evangeliī evangelī1	evangeliōrum
dative	evangeliō	evangeliīs
accusative	evangelium	evangelia
ablative	evangeliō	evangeliīs
vocative	evangelium	evangelia

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

Related terms

• evangelicus
• evangelista
• evangelīzātor
• evangelīzō

Descendants

• → Asturian: evanxeliu
• → Catalan: evangeli
• → Finnish: evankeliumi
• → Old French: evangile, evangelie, evangelie, euvangile, evangeile, avangeile
  • French: évangile
• → Friulian: vanzeli
• → Galician: evanxeo (semi-learned)
• → Istriot: vanzeîlio
• → Italian: vangelo (semi-learned)
• → Occitan: evangèli
• → Portuguese: evangelho
• → Sardinian: banzelu
• → Sicilian: vancelu
• → Old Spanish: evangelio
  • Spanish: evangelio
    • → Basque: ebanjelio
• → Venetan: vangeło
• → Walloon: evandjîle
• → Albanian: ungjill
• → Alemannic German: Efangeli
• → Proto-Brythonic: *eβengɨl (see there for further descendants)
• → English: evangel
• → German: Evangelium

References

• “euangelium” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Further reading

• “ēvangĕlĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "evangelium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “ēvangelium”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎^[2], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion).

Noun

evangelium n (definite singular evangeliet, indefinite plural evangelier, definite plural evangelia or evangeliene)

1. gospel (the teachings of Jesus Christ)
2. Gospel (one of the first four books of the New Testament)

References

• “evangelium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion).

Noun

evangelium n (definite singular evangeliet, indefinite plural evangelium, definite plural evangelia)

1. gospel (the teachings of Jesus Christ)
2. Gospel (one of the first four books of the New Testament)

References

• “evangelium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion).

Noun

evangelium n

1. (Christianity) gospel, good news

   förkunna evangeliet ― proclaim the gospel

   predika evangeliet ― preach the gospel

2. (figuratively) gospel (core principles or doctrine)
3. (Protestantism) gospel
4. a Gospel (one of the first four books of the New Testament)

   Johannesevangeliet ― the Gospel of John

5. (Christianity) a gospel reading (before a sermon)

Declension

Declension of evangelium

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	evangelium	evangeliums
	definite	evangeliet	evangeliets
plural	indefinite	evangelier	evangeliers
	definite	evangelierna	evangeliernas

See also

• gospel (“gospel music; gospel song”)

References

• “evangelium”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “evangelium”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “evangelium”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)