Elysium

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἠλῠ́σῐον (Πεδῐ́ον) (Ēlŭ́sĭon (Pedĭ́on)).

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

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Elysium (plural Elysiums or Elysia)

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^[1]:

     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.

• heaven

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From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἠλῠ́σῐον (Πεδῐ́ον) (Ēlŭ́sĭon (Pedĭ́on)).

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

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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)

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἠλῠ́σῐον (Ēlŭ́sĭon).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eːˈly.si.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈliː.s̬i.um]

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

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

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

• Ēlysius

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

Ēlysium

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

• “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