panegyris

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noun

religious festival on a fixed day in honor of a god, often including prayers, games, and panegyrics.

OriginAncient Greek πανήγυρις ← Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- →
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Meanings

nounpanegyris (plural panegyreis)

plural panegyreis · alternative panegyry

  1. Ancient Greecereligious festival on a fixed day in honor of a god, often including prayers, games, and panegyrics.
  2. obsoleteA festival; a public assembly.

    Will there not open a glorious Scene , when God (to use St. Paul's Words) shall celebrate the grand Panegyris?

    1735, Samuel Harris, Observations, Critical and Miscellaneous, on Several Remarkable Texts of the Old Testament

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ger-“to assemble, gather together”
  2. Ancient Greekπανήγυρις
  3. Englishpanegyris

From Ancient Greek πανήγυρις (panḗguris), from παν- (pan-, “all”) + ἄγυρις (águris), Aeolic form of ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ (ăgorā́, “assembly”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“to assemble, gather together”). See panegyric.

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