encomium
Meaning
- 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.
Synonyms
laudatory speech
song of praise
extolment
Translations
encomio
éloge
elogio
methiye
panegirico
εγκώμιο
panegíricPronounced as (IPA)
/ɛŋˈkəʊ.mɪ.əm/
Etymology
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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