encomium
Senso (Inglese)
- Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
- (rhetoric) A general category of oratory.
- (rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
- The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
- A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.
Concetti
sinonimi
laudatory speech
song of praise
extolment
Traduzioni
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ɛŋˈkəʊ.mɪ.əm/
Etimologia (Inglese)
From Latin encōmium (“praise, eulogy”), from Ancient Greek ἐγκώμιον (enkṓmion, “laudatory ode, praise”), from ἐγκώμιος (enkṓmios, “of or pertaining to the victor”), from κῶμος (kômos, “festival, revel, ode”).
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