encomion
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A variant of encomium, modelled on Ancient Greek ἐγκώμιον (enkṓmion).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
encomion (plural encomions)
- (obsolete) encomium; panegyric
- 1599 (first performance; published 1600), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IIII, scene viii, page 152:
- Well, this Encomion was not extemporall, it came too perfectly off.
- 1646 (indicated as 1645), Humph[rey] Moseley, “The Stationer to the Reader”, in John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC, signature a 3, verso:
- […] it’s the worth of theſe both Engliſh and Latin Poems, not the flouriſh of any prefixed encomions that can invite thee to buy them, though theſe are not without the higheſt Commendations and Applauſe of the learnedeſt Academicks, both domeſtick and forrein: […]
References[edit]
- ^ “encomion, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “encomion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐγκώμιον (enkṓmion).
Noun[edit]
encomion n (plural encomioane)
Declension[edit]
Declension of encomion
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) encomion | encomionul | (niște) encomioane | encomioanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) encomion | encomionului | (unor) encomioane | encomioanelor |
vocative | encomionule | encomioanelor |
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