encomium
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encomium
- /ɛŋˈkəʊ.mɪ.əm/ UK
- /ɛnˈkoʊ.mɪ.əm/ US
- /ɪnˈkoʊ.mɪ.əm/ US
Where it comes from
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”).
noun encomiums · encomia
- Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute. I rejoined our people, and expected a reprimand for having forced the enemy without orders; though I had my excuse ready. But here I was mistaken; for I met with nothing but encomiums.
- A general category of oratory.
- 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.
