English
eulogy
Eulogy comes from Latin eulogium.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeulogium
- Englishearliest quotation 1859eulogy
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeulogium
- Englishearliest quotation 1859eulogy
Earliest quotation: 1859, Wilkie Collins: “It was the prettiest and most luxurious little sitting-room…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to collect (words)’
election, collection, technology, lesson, select, elite, collect, eligible, elect, elegant, legion, coil, negligence, catalogue, negligible, negligent, leach, diligent, lexicon, lexical, astrology, epilogue, dialectic, cull, legation, alexia, lignite, lexis, lignin, cosmology, gynecologist, ineligibility, dialogic, 151 more
through Proto-Hellenic *lógos
archaeological, pathological, astrological, homologous, etymology, pathophysiology, psychopathology, bacteriological, neurophysiology, histopathology, 102 more
through Ancient Greek λόγος ‘word, utterance, narrative’
logic, apology, sociology, trilogy, terminology, physiology, analogy, pathology, logos, monologue, archaeologist, pathologist, prologue, logistic, epistemology, entomology, etiology, apologia, bacteriology, bacteriologist, syllogism, 111 more
Today it means
noun An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin eulogium / eulogy