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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

evangelo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: evanˈdʒɛlo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Evangel/ˈiː.væn.dʒəl/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Lesse un passaggio tratto dal santo evangelo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The good news of the Christian Gospel or the message of salvation.

    "The itinerant preacher dedicated his life to spreading the evangel across remote rural communities."
  2. 2

    A bringer of good news; a herald or harbinger.

    "She arrived as an evangel of hope during the darkest days of the economic crisis."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English 'ēvangelium', via Old French from Latin 'evangelium', ultimately from the Greek 'euangelion', meaning 'good news' (from 'eu-' meaning good + 'angelos' meaning messenger). It entered English usage primarily in religious contexts during the Middle English period to refer to the Gospels or the message of Christian redemption.

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