euge
English
Etymology
From Latin euge, from Ancient Greek εὖγε (eûge).
Noun
euge (uncountable)
- (obsolete, rare) applause
- Henry Hammond
- No such good news to heaven as this; not only approbation, but joy in heaven over one such convert prodigal: the music that Pythagoras talks of in the orbs, was that of the minstrels which our Saviour mentions at the return of that prodigal, to solemnize the euge's, the passionate welcomes of heaven poured out on penitents.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Euge! Heinrichi. O, the sublime bathos of thy prosaism — the muddy eddy of thy logic! Thou art the only man to understand a poet!
- Henry Hammond
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek εὖγε (eûge, “good! well done! Excellent!”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈeu̯.ɡe/, [ˈeu̯.ɡɛ]
References
- euge in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- euge in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- euge in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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