different between elogium vs eulogium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?logium (“short saying, inscription”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (elegeîon, “elegy”), from ?????? (élegos, “song, melody”).

Noun

elogium (plural elogia or elogiums)

1. a eulogy

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??lo.?i.um/, [e??????i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?lo.d??i.um/, [??l??d??ium]

Noun

?logium n (genitive ?logi? or ?log?); 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).

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

English

Etymology

Medieval Latin eulogium, apparently from a confusion between ?logium and eulogia.

Noun

eulogium (plural eulogiums)

1. A eulogy.
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 119:

     Her eulogium on Rousseau was accidentally put into my hands, and her sentiments, the sentiments of too many of her sex, may serve as the text for a few comments.