# evangelium
## Czech
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛvaŋɡɛlɪjum]

### Noun

evangelium n
* gospel (an account of the life, death, resurrection, and teachings of Jesus)
    novozákonní evangelia ― new testament gospels
    evangelium podle Matouše ― the Gospel According to Matthew

#### Related terms

* evangelický
* evangelista
* evangelík

### Further reading

* “evangelium”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “evangelium”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “evangelium”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Alternative forms

* evangelie

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [evɑŋˈɡ̊eːljɔm]

### Noun

evangelium n (singular definite evangeliet, plural indefinite evangelier)
* (religion, Christianity) gospel (the teachings of Jesus Christ)
* (religion, Christianity) Gospel (one of the first four books of the New Testament)

#### Derived terms

* evangelietekst
* juleevangelium
* evangelist
* evangelisk
* evangelisk-luthersk

### References

* “evangelium” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Faroese
### Etymology

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

### Noun

evangelium n (genitive singular evangelis, plural evangelium)
* gospel

#### Declension
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* euuangelium, euguangelium, euvangelium, evuangelium, euangelia

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /eu̯.u̯anˈɡe.li.um/, [ɛu̯ːäŋˈɡɛlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /e.vanˈd͡ʒe.li.um/, [evän̠ʲˈd͡ʒɛːlium]
Note: while the vowel is short, the first syllable is heavy due to the glide [w] being always geminate in Ancient Greek. Compare Eva and peior.

### Noun

evangelium n (genitive evangeliī or evangelī); second declension
* good news
    Synonyms: bona annūntiātiō, bona nūntiātiō, bonī nūntiī (pl.)
* (Ecclesiastical Latin) the Christian doctrine, gospel; also its preaching
** any doctrine
** the Gospel (book) and any of its manuscripts

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).
$^1$Found 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 (semi-learned)
* → Occitan: evangèli
* → Portuguese: evangelho
* → Sardinian: banzelu
* → Sicilian: vancelu
* → Old Spanish: evangelio
** Spanish: evangelio
*** → Basque: ebanjelio
* → Venetan: vangeło
* → Walloon: evandjîle
* → Albanian: ungjill
* → Alemannic German: Efangeli
* → Proto-Brythonic: *eβengɨl (see there for further descendants)
* → English: evangel
* → German: Evangelium

### References

* ↑ Euren, S. F. (1896) chapter 2, in Étude sur l'r français‎, Upsala: Imprimerie Almquist & Wiksell, page 22
* ↑ “evangeile”, in The Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2000-2006, retrieved 2021-04-10: “avangeile, awangelie, awanglie, awangile, awangire”
* “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, 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)
* gospel (the teachings of Jesus Christ)
* 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)
* gospel (the teachings of Jesus Christ)
* Gospel (one of the first four books of the New Testament)

### References

* “evangelium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion).

### Noun

evangelium n
* gospel

#### Declension
### References

* evangelium in Svensk ordbok.