elogium

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

elogium (plural elogia or elogiums)

1. a eulogy

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eːˈlo.ɡi.um/, [eːˈɫ̪ɔɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈlo.d͡ʒi.um/, [eˈlɔːd͡ʒium]

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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “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, 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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016