anthology

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”), from ἀνθολογέω (anthologéō, “I gather flowers”), from ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”) + λέγω (légō, “I gather, pick up, collect”), coined by Meleager of Gadara circa 60 BCE, originally as Στέφανος (στέφανος (stéphanos, “garland”)) to describe a collection of poetry, later retitled anthology – see Greek Anthology. Anthologiai were collections of small Greek poems and epigrams, because in Greek culture the flower symbolized the finer sentiments that only poetry can express.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ænˈθɒlədʒi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ænˈθɑləd͡ʒi/

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• Hyphenation: an‧thol‧ogy
• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

anthology (plural anthologies)

1. A collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors.
2. (attributive) A work or series containing various stories with no direct relation to one another.
3. (by extension) An assortment of things.
4. The study of flowers.

Derived terms

• anthologer
• anthological
• anthologist
• anthologization
• anthologize
• anthologizer
• patristic anthology

 

Related terms

• anther

Translations

collection of literary works

• Afrikaans: bloemlesing
• Arabic: تَجْمِيعَة f (tajmīʕa), دِيوَان m (dīwān)
• Asturian: antoloxía f
• Belarusian: антало́гія f (antalóhija)
• Catalan: antologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文選／文选 (zh) (wénxuǎn), 詩集／诗集 (zh) (shījí), 選集／选集 (zh) (xuǎnjí)

• Czech: antologie (cs) f, výbor (cs) m, výběr (cs) m, klasobraní n
• Danish: antologi (da) c
• Dutch: bloemlezing (nl) f
• Esperanto: antologio
• Finnish: antologia (fi), runokokoelma
• French: anthologie (fr), florilège (fr)
• Galician: antoloxía f, escolma f
• German: Anthologie (de) f, Sammelband (de) f, Blütenlese (de) f
• Greek: ανθολογία (anthología) f

  Ancient: ἀνθολογία f (anthología)

• Hausa: diwani
• Hebrew: אנתולוגיה (he) f (antológya)
• Icelandic: sýnisbók f, safnrit n
• Ido: antologio (io)
• Italian: antologia (it), florilegio (it)
• Japanese: アンソロジー (ansorojii), 詩集 (ja) (ししゅう, shijū), 選集 (ja) (せんしゅう, senshū)
• Korean: 시집 (ko) (sijip), 문집 (ko) (munjip), 명시 선집 (myeongsi seonjip), 문선 (munseon)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: antolojî (ku) f

• Latvian: antoloģija f
• Lithuanian: antologija f
• Malay: antologi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: antologi m

• Persian: گلچین (fa) (golčin)
• Polish: antologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: antologia (pt) f
• Romanian: antologie (ro) f
• Russian: антоло́гия (ru) f (antológija), хрестома́тия (ru) f (xrestomátija)
• Scottish Gaelic: cruinneachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: antologija (sh) f
• Spanish: antología (es) f, florilegio (es)
• Swahili: diwani (sw)
• Swedish: antologi (sv) c, samlingsutgåva c
• Turkish: antoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: антоло́гія (uk) f (antolóhija)
• Vietnamese: văn tuyển
• Walloon: antolodjeye (wa) f
• Welsh: blodeugerdd (cy) f
• Yiddish: זאַמלבוך n (zamlbukh), אַנטאָלאָגיע f (antologye)

assortment of things

• Finnish: antologia (fi)
• German: Auslese (de)
• Portuguese: antologia (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: cruinneachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: antologija (sh) f

study of flowers

• Persian: گل‌شناسی (gol-šenâsi)

See also

• florilegium

References

• anthology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia