εὐλογία

See also: ευλογιά, and ευλογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εὔλογος (eúlogos, “reasonable, sensible”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) +‎ λόγος (lógos, “word, utterance, narrative”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eu̯.lo.ɡí.aː/ → /e.βloˈʝi.a/ → /e.vloˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.lo.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ew.loˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.βloˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.vloˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.vloˈʝi.a/

Noun

εὐλογῐ́ᾱ • (eulogíā) f (genitive εὐλογῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. good speaking, good words
2. flattery
3. praise, panegyric, eulogy
4. fame, glory
5. blessing, thanksgiving
6. gift

Inflection

First declension of ἡ εὐλογῐ́ᾱ; τῆς εὐλογῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εὐλογῐ́ᾱ hē eulogíā	τὼ εὐλογῐ́ᾱ tṑ eulogíā	αἱ εὐλογῐ́αι hai eulogíai
Genitive	τῆς εὐλογῐ́ᾱς tês eulogíās	τοῖν εὐλογῐ́αιν toîn eulogíain	τῶν εὐλογῐῶν tôn eulogiôn
Dative	τῇ εὐλογῐ́ᾳ têi eulogíāi	τοῖν εὐλογῐ́αιν toîn eulogíain	ταῖς εὐλογῐ́αις taîs eulogíais
Accusative	τὴν εὐλογῐ́ᾱν tḕn eulogíān	τὼ εὐλογῐ́ᾱ tṑ eulogíā	τᾱ̀ς εὐλογῐ́ᾱς tā̀s eulogíās
Vocative	εὐλογῐ́ᾱ eulogíā	εὐλογῐ́ᾱ eulogíā	εὐλογῐ́αι eulogíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ευλογία (evlogía)
• → Albanian: li
• → English: eulogy
• → Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌲𐌹𐌰 (aiwlaugia)
• → Italian: eulogia
• → Latin: eulogia
• → Old Georgian: ევლოგიაჲ (evlogiay)
  • Georgian: ევლოგია (evlogia)

References

• “εὐλογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εὐλογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εὐλογία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “εὐλογία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2129 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • applause idem, page 35.
  • commendation idem, page 147.
  • eulogy idem, page 284.
  • laudation idem, page 478.
  • praise idem, page 631.