Eusebius

English

Etymology

From Latin Eusebius, from Ancient Greek Εὐσέβιος (Eusébios).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juˈsibi.əs/

Proper noun

Eusebius

1. An Ancient Greek male given name from Ancient Greek

Derived terms

• Eusebian

 

Translations

given name

• Armenian: Եվսեբիոս (Evsebios)
• Basque: Eusebio
• Catalan: Eusebi m
• French: Eusèbe (fr)
• Galician: Eusebio (gl) m
• Georgian: ევსები (evsebi)
• German: Eusebius (de)
• Greek: Ευσέβιος (el) (Efsévios)

  Ancient: Εὐσέβιος (Eusébios)

• Hungarian: Özséb (hu)
• Irish: Eusbius m
• Italian: Eusebio (it)
• Latin: Eusebius
• Ligurian: Zeuggio
• Occitan: Eusèbi m, Esèbe m, Eusebi m
• Portuguese: Eusebio (pt), Eusébio (pt)
• Russian: Евсе́вий (Jevsévij)
• Sicilian: Eusebiu m
• Spanish: Eusebio (es)
• Vietnamese: Êusêbiô

Noun

Eusebius (plural Eusebiuses or Eusebiusses)

1. One who is comparable to Eusebius of Caesarea; an ecclesiastic historian.
   • 1829, Robert Taylor, The Diegesis; Being a Discovery of the Origin, Evidences, and Early History of Christianity, page 360:

     Ye little Eusebiuses hide your diminished heads!

   • 1994, Mark Greengrass, “Nicolas Pithou: experience, conscience and history in the French civil wars” in Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson, eds. Anthony Fletcher and Peter Roberts, Cambridge University Press (digitally printed first paperback version, 2006), chapter 1, pages 1–2:

     In provincial synods across France, local Eusebiuses were put to the task; by May 1565 the results were piling up in Geneva,

     ‘tantae molis’ lamented Beza ‘ut camelum, nedum asinum possint obruere’.

   • 2002, Nigel Smith, “Non-conformist voices and books” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Cambridge University Press, volume IV: 1557–1695, eds. John Barnard and D.F. McKenzie, →ISBN, chapter 19, page 416:

     The extreme Puritans had an impact of no less import on the publishing activities of their enemies. In their attempt to halt the progress of forms of religion and religious opinion that had gone far beyond their own goals, several Presbyterian divines produced carefully assembled accounts of the heresies of their own times – they were the Eusebiuses of their day, and their works are now major sources for the history of the period.

2. A thorough ecclesiastic history.
   • 1957, James Stevenson (editor), A New Eusebius: Documents illustrative of the history of the Church to A.D. 337, SPCK, main title

Translations

one comparable to Eusebius of Caesarea

thorough ecclesiastic history

See also

• Eusebia

Further reading

• Eusebius (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εὐσέβιος (Eusébios), from εὐσεβής (eusebḗs, “pious”), from εὐ- (eu-) +‎ σέβω (sébō, “I worship”); see σέβομαι (sébomai, “I feel awe”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈse.bi.us/, [ɛu̯ˈs̠ɛbiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈse.bi.us/, [eu̯ˈsɛːbius]

Proper noun

Eusebius m sg (genitive Eusebiī or Eusebī); second declension

1. a Latin rhetorician

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Eusebius
Genitive	Eusebiī Eusebī1
Dative	Eusebiō
Accusative	Eusebium
Ablative	Eusebiō
Vocative	Eusebī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• Eusebēs
• eusebēs
• Eusebia

Descendants

• → Catalan: Eusebi
• → English: Eusebius
• → French: Eusèbe
• → German: Eusebius
• → Hungarian: Özséb
• → Italian: Eusebio
• → Polish: Euzebiusz
• → Portuguese: Eusébio
• → Romanian: Eusebiu
• → Spanish: Eusebio

References

• “Eusĕbĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Eusĕbĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 608/1.