Encomium

Definition: Encomium

Encomium

Noun

1. A formal expression of praise.

Date "encomium" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Etymology: Encomium \En*co"mi*um\, noun; plural Encomiums. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression (a song) chanted in Bacchic festival in praise of the god; in jovial festivity, revel. See Comedy.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Encomium

Synonyms: eulogy (n), paean (n), panegyric (n), pean (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Approbation	Commendation, praise; laud, laudation; good word; meed of praise, tribute of praise; encomium; eulogy, eulogium; eloge, panegyric; homage, hero worship; benediction, blessing, benison.
Courtesy	Compliment; fair words, soft words, sweet words; honeyed phrases, ceremonial;salutation, reception, presentation, introduction, accueil, greeting, recognition; welcome, abord, respects, devoir, regards, remembrances; kind regards, kind remembrances; love, best love, duty; empty encomium, flattering remark, hollow commendation; salaams.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Encomium

English words defined with "encomium": Encomion, Encomiums. (references)

Etymologies containing "encomium": Encomiast. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Cardanos Encomium Neronis : Edition, èUbersetzung und Kommentar (reference) Encomium (reference) Encomium Emmae Reginae (reference) Encomium Musicae: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert J. Snow (Festschrift Series, No 17) (reference) Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus (Hellenistic Culture and Society, 38) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Encomium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Encomium" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	12	101,599

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Language		Translations for "encomium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		панегирик (eulogy, panegyric). (various references)

French		panégyrique. (various references)

Hungarian		magasztaló beszéd (encomia, laudatory, panegyric), magasztaló ének (encomia), dicshimnusz (encomia, eulogy, panegyric), dicsőítő beszéd (encomia, laudatory, panegyric), dicsőítő ének (encomia, paean). (various references)

Italian		encomio (accolade, citation, Laud, praise). (various references)

Pig Latin		encomiumay

Portuguese		elogio (accolade, commendation, compliment, eulogy, incense, Laud, laudation, praise), panegirista (panegyrize). (various references)

Romanian		elogiu (commendation, eulogium, eulogy), panegiric. (various references)

Russian		панегирик (eulogy, laudation, panegyric). (various references)

Spanish		elogio (accolade, commendation, compliment, eulogy, praise, tribute). (various references)

Swedish		lovtal (eulogy, laudation, panegyric). (various references)

Turkish		kaside (eulogy, ode), övgü (accolade, approbation, bouquet, commendation, compliment, eclat, eulogy, glowing account, ode, panegyric, praise, tribute). (various references)

Ukranian		вихваляння (aggrandizement, dithyramb, gasconade, glorification, incense, magnification, swank), панегірик (eulogism, eulogy, panegyric). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	enkomion. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "encomium": encomiums. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Encomium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecomium, encom, encomiun, encomum, enconium, Eunomius, negotium. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "encomium" (pronounced 'En*co"mi*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum, Ascidiarium, Ascidium, Aspersorium, Asylum, Auchenium, Auditorium, Aurum, Bacterium, Ballium, barium, Basidium, Basigynium, Basipterygium, Bdellium, Begum, Bivium, Brachium, Brontotherium, Brontozoum, Bryozoum, Bucranium, Bungarum, Cadmium, Caecum, Caesium, Caladium, Calamistrum, Calcaneum, Calcium, Calistheneum, Callosum, Cambium, Candelabrum, Capitulum, Carborundum, Caseum, Castoreum, Celtium, Centrum, Cephalanthium, Cerebellum, Cerebrum, Cerium, Ceruleum, Cheiropterygium, Cheirotherium, Chloralum, Chromium, Chrysanthemum, Ciborium, Cingulum, Claustrum, Clinanthium, Clum, Coagulum, Coccobacterium, Coelum, Coenoecium, Colchicum, Colleterium, Collodium, Collum, Collyrium, Colostrum, Columbarium, Columbium, Cometarium, Compendium, Compluvium, Conidium, Conium, Conjugium, Contagium, Conundrum, Corallum, Corniculum, Coronium, Corrigendum, Corundum, Cranium, Credendum, Cribellum, Crincum, Crincum-crancum, Crinum, Crissum, Crotalum, cuprum, Curriculum, Cymatium, Cymbium, Cynarrhodium, Cypripedium, damnum, Datum, Davyum, Decennium, Decipium, Decorum, Degum, Deinotherium, Deliquium, Delirium, Deltidium, Dentalium, Depositum, Desideratum, Diacodium, Dianium, Dictum, Didymium, Digitorium, Diluvium, Diverticulum, Doliolum, Dolium, Dorsum, Dromatherium, Duodenum, dysprosium, Eardrum, Ecballium, Ecthoreum, Ectobronchium, Ectropium, Effluvium, Ekaluminium, Elaterium, Elysium, Emporium, Endocardium, Endometrium, Endomysium, Endoneurium, Endophloeum, Endosteum, Endothecium, Endothelium, Enrheum, Entobronchium, Entropium, Ephippium, Epicardium, Epicedium, Epicleidium, Epicranium, Epigastrium, Epineurium, Epiphyllum, Epipodium, Episternum, Epithalamium, Epithelium, Equilibrium, Equisetum, Erratum, Erythronium, Eulogium, Eupatorium, Euphonium, Euphorbium, europium, Excubitorium, Exogium, Exordium, Exothecium, Factotum, Factum, Fee-faw-fum, Figgum, Flabellum, flagellum, folium, forum, Fraenulum, Fretum, Frigidarium, frustum, fulcrum, fum, Fumatorium, Furculum, Garum, Gelsemium, Geranium, Germarium, Gigerium, Glabellum, Glaum, Glochidium, Glucinum, Gnaphalium, Gnathidium, Gonoblastidium, Gossypium, Grum, Guiacum, Gymnasium, gynoecium, Gypsum, Habendum, Hamatum, harmonium, harum-scarum, Haum, Haustellum, haustorium, Helichrysum, Hemicerebrum, Herbarium, Hesperidium, Hibernaculum, hilum, holmium, hoodlum, hordeolum, Hormogonium, Hospitium, Hummum, hydrargyrum, Hydroperitoneum, Hydrophyllium, hymenium, Hypanthium, Hypericum, Hypnum, hypochondrium, Hypocleidium, Hypodactylum, Hypogastrium, Hypogeum, Hypoptilum, Ichthyopterygium, Illicium, Ilmenium, Imperium, Impluvium, Incertum, Incunabulum, indecorum, indium, indusium, infundibulum, Interambulacrum, Intercentrum, Interoperculum, INTERREGNUM, Intervallum, Involucellum, Ionidium, iridium, jejunum, jorum, Jugulum, Jugum, Juramentum, Kalium, kettledrum, Korrigum, Labarum, Labellum, labium, Labrum, Laburnum, Lactucarium, ladanum, lanthanum, Larum, Latibulum, laudanum, Lavoesium, linoleum, Linum, Lithargyrum, lithium, Lixivium, Lum, lustrum, lutecium, lyceum, Lycopodium, Lygodium, Macrosporangium, Madisterium, magnesium, magnum, Manganesium, Manganium, manubrium, Marrubium, mausoleum, Meconidium, meconium, meerschaum, memorandum, Menstruum, mentum, Mercurammonium, Mesembryanthemum, Mesoarium, Mesobronchium, Mesocaecum, Mesogastrium, Mesometrium, Mesonotum, Mesophloeum, Mesophyllum, Mesopodium, Mesopterygium, Mesorchium, Mesorectum, Mesoscutum, Mesosternum, mesothelium, Mesothorium, mesovarium, Mesymnicum, Metalammonium, Metanotum, Metapodium, Metapterygium, Meum, Microsporangium, millennium, minimum, minium, Minum, modicum, molluscum, molybdenum, momentum, Monopodium, moratorium, Multum, museum, mutandum, Mycelium, Myocardium, Nasturtium, Natatorium, Natrium, Nemathecium, Nephridium, neptunium, Neuropodium, Nitroleum, norium, Norwegium, Nostrum, Notaeum. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: meconium.
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-m-m-n-o-u"
	-1 letter: commune.
	-2 letters: commie, conium, cummin, immune, income, muonic, neumic.
	-3 letters: cumin, mimeo, mince, monie, mucin, onium, ounce.
	-4 letters: cine, cion, coin, come, cone, coni, emic, icon, memo, meno, menu, meou, mice, mien, mime, mine, mome, momi, moue, muni, muon, neum, nice, nome, omen, once, unci, unco.
	-5 letters: con, cue, cum, ecu, emu, eon, ice, ion, mem, men, mim, moc, mom, mon, mum, mun, nim, nom, one, umm.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-m-m-n-o-u"
	+1 letter: comminute, communise, communize, encomiums, meconiums.
	+2 letters: comminuted, comminutes, communique, communised, communises, communized, communizes, compendium.
	+3 letters: communalize, communicate, communiques, communities, compendiums, consumerism, immunogenic, uncommitted.
	+4 letters: communalized, communalizes, communicable, communicated, communicatee, communicates, consumerisms, consummative, incommutable, minicomputer, uncommercial.
	+5 letters: communalities, communicatees, communicative, decamethonium, excommunicate, immunochemist, immunogenetic, intercommunal, medicamentous, minicomputers, telecommuting.
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