Elysium

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English

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἠλῠ́σῐον (Πεδῐ́ον) (Ēlúsion (Pedíon)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈli.ʒi.əm/, /ɪˈli.zi.əm/

Proper noun

Elysium

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The home of the blessed after death.
  2. A place or state of ideal happiness; paradise.
    • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXIII, in Wuthering Heights‎:
      Joseph seemed sitting in a sort of elysium alone, beside a roaring fire; a quart of ale on the table near him, bristling with large pieces of toasted oat-cake; and his black, short pipe in his mouth.
  3. A region in the northern hemisphere of Mars.

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Adjective

Elysium (not comparable)

  1. blissful; euphoric
  2. of or pertaining to Elysium

German

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἠλῠ́σῐον (Πεδῐ́ον) (Ēlúsion (Pedíon)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eˈlyːzi̯ʊm/
  • Hyphenation: Ely‧si‧um
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Noun

Elysium n (strong, genitive Elysiums, plural Elysien)

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Elysium (home of the blessed after death)
    • 1785, Friedrich Schiller, Ode an die Freude, 1nd stanza, lines 1-4
      Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
      Tochter aus Elysium,
      Wir betreten feuertrunken,
      Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of Elysium
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Elysium die Elysien
genitive eines des Elysiums der Elysien
dative einem dem Elysium den Elysien
accusative ein das Elysium die Elysien

Further reading

  • “Elysium” in Duden online
  • “Elysium” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἠλῠ́σῐον (Ēlúsion).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ēlysium n sg (genitive Ēlysiī or Ēlysī); second declension

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Elysium (home of the blessed after death)
    Synonyms: Ēlysiī, Campī Ēlysiī, Ēlysiī Campī

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

singular
nominative Ēlysium
genitive Ēlysiī
Ēlysī1
dative Ēlysiō
accusative Ēlysium
ablative Ēlysiō
vocative Ēlysium

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

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Descendants

  • → French: Élysée m, Elysée
    • → English: Élysée
    • → Korean: 엘리제 (Ellije)

Adjective

Ēlysium

  1. inflection of Ēlysius:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

References

  • “Ēlysĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ēly̆sĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages 583-4.
  • “Elysium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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