elogium Latin · revision 34483

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc ἐλεγεῖον}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eːˈɫɔ.ɡi.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈlɔː.d͡ʒi.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēlogium''' ''n'' (genitive ēlogiī or ēlogī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is apparently [[bor|grc|ἐλεγεῖον|tr=elegeîon|t=elegiac distich, verse inscription]],^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) reshaped under the influence of [[m|grc|λόγος|tr=lógos|t=word]] or of [[ēloquium]],^(OLD 2012) or reanalysed as [[m|la|ē-|t=out]] and [[m|grc|λόγιον|tr=lógion|t=oracle]].^(Wiktionary) Köbler takes the Greek word from [[m|grc|ἔλεγος|tr=élegos|t=lament]], probably of Asia Minor origin.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis and Short and Georges cite Plautus for an inscription on a door, a lampoon,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) while the OLD's first example is Cato, who says that the deed of Leonidas was honoured with statues, inscriptions and histories.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero uses it of an elegiac couplet of Solon, which suits its Greek source,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) but its main Classical sense is an inscription on a tomb, also on statues of ancestors and on dedications.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In law it is a clause added to a will, especially one giving the reason for disinheriting someone, as in Cicero, Seneca the Elder and Petronius,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) and in the Code of Justinian ''ultima ēlogia'' is the last will.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Under the Empire it is also the written report that went with a prisoner to the magistrate, naming the charges, and so a sentence of condemnation in Ammianus.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ In medieval Latin it means a charge or indictment, a verdict and a last will.^(Niermeyer 1976) Medieval writers in Britain also use it of a poem or elegy, an utterance and a stigma,^(DMLBS) and Ecclesiastical Latin has the sense “praise”.^(Stelten 1995) It lives on in French ''éloge'' and Italian ''elogio'', and English borrowed it as ''elogium''.^(Wiktionary)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of an inscription on a door.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of inscriptions honouring Leonidas.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of epitaphs and of a clause in a will.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of the report on a prisoner.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An elegiac [[m|en|distich]]; a short saying.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # An inscription on a tomb, an [[m|en|epitaph]]; any inscription.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A clause added to a will, a [[m|en|codicil]], especially one disinheriting someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A written report on a prisoner sent before a magistrate; a sentence of condemnation.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An [[m|en|indictment]]; a verdict; a last will.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Praise, [[m|en|eulogy]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}