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) a eulogy == Latin == === Etymology === Blend of [Term?] +‎ --- Ancient Greek ἐλεγεῖον (elegeîon, “an elegiac distich”) and ē (“out”) + λόγιον (lógion, “the word of an oracle”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [eːˈɫɔ.ɡi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈlɔː.d͡ʒi.um] === Noun === ēlogium n (genitive ēlogiī or ēlogī); second declension short saying or sentence: short maxim inscription on a tombstone, epitaph clause in a will (law) judicial statement, extract, summary ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== === 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, 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. “elogium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers elogium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016