evangelium

See also: Evangelium and evangélium

Czech

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛvaŋɡɛlɪjum]

Noun

evangelium n

1. gospel (an account of the life, death, resurrection, and teachings of Jesus)

   novozákonní evangelia ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   evangelium podle Matouše ― the Gospel According to Matthew

Declension

Declension of evangelium (semisoft neuter foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	evangelium	evangelia
genitive	evangelia	evangelií
dative	evangeliu	evangeliím
accusative	evangelium	evangelia
vocative	evangelium	evangelia
locative	evangeliu	evangeliích
instrumental	evangeliem	evangelii

Related terms

• evangelista
• evangelík

 

Further reading

• evangelium in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• evangelium in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Alternative forms

• evangelie

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [evɑŋˈɡ̊eːljɔm]

Noun

evangelium n (singular definite evangeliet, plural indefinite evangelier)

1. gospel

References

• “evangelium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faroese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”).

Noun

evangelium n (genitive singular evangelis, plural evangelium)

1. gospel

Declension

Declension of evangelium
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	evangelium	evangeliið	evangelium	evangeliini
Accusative	evangelium	evangeliið	evangelium	evangeliini
Dative	evangelii	evangelinum	evangelium	evangeliunum
Genitive	evangelis	evangelisins	evangelia	evagelianna

Latin

Alternative forms

• euangelium, euuangelium, evuangelium (orthographic)
• Evangelium, Euangelium, Euuangelium, Evuangelium (letter-case)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”). Written as a Latin word first in ecclesiastical writers.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eː.u.u̯anˈɡe.li.um/, [eːuː̯äŋˈɡɛlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.vanˈd͡ʒe.li.um/, [evän̠ʲˈd͡ʒɛːlium]

Noun

ēvangelium n (genitive ēvangeliī or ēvangelī); second declension

1. good news
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) the Christian doctrine, gospel; also its preaching
   1. any doctrine
   2. the Gospel (book) and any of its manuscripts

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēvangelium	ēvangelia
Genitive	ēvangeliī ēvangelī1	ēvangeliōrum
Dative	ēvangeliō	ēvangeliīs
Accusative	ēvangelium	ēvangelia
Ablative	ēvangeliō	ēvangeliīs
Vocative	ēvangelium	ēvangelia

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

Related terms

• evangelicus
• evangelista
• evangelīzātor
• evangelīzō

 

Descendants

• → Asturian: evanxeliu
• → Catalan: evangeli
• → Finnish: evankeliumi
• → Old French: evangile, evangelie, evangelie, euvangile, evangeile, avangeile
  • French: évangile
• → Friulian: vanzeli
• → Galician: evanxeo (semi-learned)
• → Istriot: vanzeîlio
• → Italian: vangelo
• → Occitan: evangèli
• → Portuguese: evangelho
• → Sardinian: banzelu
• → Sicilian: vancelu
• → Old Spanish: evangelio
  • Spanish: evangelio
    • → Basque: ebanjelio
• → Venetian: vangeło
• → Walloon: evandjîle
• → Albanian: ungjill
• → Alemannic German: Efangeli
• → Proto-Brythonic: *eβengɨl (see there for further descendants)
• → English: evangel
• → German: Evangelium

References

• “euangelium” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Further reading

• “ēvangĕlĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• evangelium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “ēvangelium”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎^[2], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion).

Noun

evangelium n (definite singular evangeliet, indefinite plural evangelier, definite plural evangelia or evangeliene)

1. gospel (the teachings of Jesus Christ)
2. Gospel (one of the first four books of the New Testament)

References

• “evangelium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion).

Noun

evangelium n (definite singular evangeliet, indefinite plural evangelium, definite plural evangelia)

1. gospel (the teachings of Jesus Christ)
2. Gospel (one of the first four books of the New Testament)

References

• “evangelium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

evangelium n

1. gospel

Declension

Declension of evangelium
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	evangelium	evangeliet	evangelier	evangelierna
Genitive	evangeliums	evangeliets	evangeliers	evangeliernas