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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εὖ (eû, “good”) + ἀγγέλλειν (angéllein, “to announce”).
Adjective
εὐάγγελος • (euángelos)
- bringing good news
References
- “εὐάγγελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εὐάγγελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εὐάγγελος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “evangel”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.