elogium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēlogium (“short saying, inscription”), from Ancient Greek ἐλεγεῖον (elegeîon, “elegy”), from ἔλεγος (élegos, “song, melody”). Doublet of elogy.

Noun

elogium (plural elogia or elogiums)

1. a eulogy

Latin

Etymology

Blend of of Ancient Greek ἐλεγεῖον (elegeîon, “an elegiac distich”) and ē (“out”) + λόγιον (lógion, “the word of an oracle”).

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, epitaph
   3. clause in a will
   4. (law) judicial statement, extract, summary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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