The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromεὐαγγέλιον“good news”
- English todayEvangeline
Invented by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow when he began research on his epic poem Evangeline about Acadian lovers deported from French-Canada. From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekεὐαγγέλιον all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.