different between eulogy vs elogium

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ??????? (eulogía, “praise”).

eu- +? logia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ju?l?d?i/
• (US) enPR: yo?o?l?-j?, IPA^(key): /?jul?d?i/

Noun

eulogy (plural eulogies)

1. An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral.
2. Speaking highly of someone or something; the act of praising or commending someone or something.
   • 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:

     It was the prettiest and most luxurious little sitting-room I had ever seen; and I admired it with the warmest enthusiasm. The solemn servant was far too highly trained to betray the slightest satisfaction. He bowed with icy deference when my terms of eulogy were all exhausted, and silently opened the door for me to go out into the passage again.

   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[1]

     The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.

Synonyms

• panegyric
• elogy

Antonyms

• criticism
• dyslogy

Coordinate terms

• dirge, elegy, threnody – funeral song
• homily – funeral oration by clergy
• requiem – music played at a mass to honor a deceased person

Derived terms

• eulogise, eulogize
• eulogist
• eulogistic

Translations

See also

• elegy – similar-sounding funeral word

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