Etymology
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”), from ἀνθολογέω (anthologéō, “I gather flowers”), from ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”) + λέγω (légō, “I gather, pick up, collect”), coined by Meleager of Gadara circa 60 BCE, originally as Στέφανος (στέφανος (stéphanos, “garland”)) to describe a collection of poetry, later retitled anthology – see Greek Anthology. Anthologiai were collections of small Greek poems and epigrams, because in Greek culture the flower symbolized the finer sentiments that only poetry can express.
Pronunciation
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anthology (plural anthologies)
- A collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors.
- (attributive) A work or series containing various stories with no direct relation to one another.
- (by extension) An assortment of things.
- The study of flowers.
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Translations
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collection of literary works
- Afrikaans: bloemlesing
- Arabic: تَجْمِيعَة f (tajmīʕa), دِيوَان m (dīwān)
- Asturian: antoloxía f
- Belarusian: антало́гія f (antalóhija)
- Catalan: antologia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 文選／文选 (zh) (wénxuǎn), 詩集／诗集 (zh) (shījí), 選集／选集 (zh) (xuǎnjí)
- Czech: antologie (cs) f, výbor (cs) m, výběr (cs) m, klasobraní n
- Danish: antologi (da) c
- Dutch: bloemlezing (nl) f
- Esperanto: antologio
- Finnish: antologia (fi), runokokoelma
- French: anthologie (fr), florilège (fr)
- Galician: antoloxía f, escolma f
- German: Anthologie (de) f, Sammelband (de) f, Blütenlese (de) f
- Greek: ανθολογία (anthología) f
- Ancient: ἀνθολογία f (anthología)
- Hausa: diwani
- Hebrew: אנתולוגיה (he) f (antológya)
- Icelandic: sýnisbók f, safnrit n
- Ido: antologio (io)
- Italian: antologia (it), florilegio (it)
- Japanese: アンソロジー (ansorojii), 詩集 (ja) (ししゅう, shijū), 選集 (ja) (せんしゅう, senshū)
- Korean: 시집 (ko) (sijip), 문집 (ko) (munjip), 명시 선집 (myeongsi seonjip), 문선 (munseon)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: antolojî (ku) f
- Latvian: antoloģija f
- Lithuanian: antologija f
- Malay: antologi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: antologi m
- Persian: گلچین (fa) (golčin)
- Polish: antologia (pl) f
- Portuguese: antologia (pt) f
- Romanian: antologie (ro) f
- Russian: антоло́гия (ru) f (antológija), хрестома́тия (ru) f (xrestomátija)
- Scottish Gaelic: cruinneachadh m
- Serbo-Croatian: antologija (sh) f
- Spanish: antología (es) f, florilegio (es)
- Swahili: diwani (sw)
- Swedish: antologi (sv) c, samlingsutgåva c
- Turkish: antoloji (tr)
- Ukrainian: антоло́гія (uk) f (antolóhija)
- Vietnamese: văn tuyển
- Walloon: antolodjeye (wa) f
- Welsh: blodeugerdd (cy) f
- Yiddish: זאַמלבוך n (zamlbukh), אַנטאָלאָגיע f (antologye)
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