Evangelium
German, noun/evaŋˈɡeːli̯ʊm/
Evangelium is spelled E-V-A-N-G-E-L-I-U-M (10 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written German, the 15,594th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Evangelium is a German neuter noun meaning “Evangelium, Gospel (one of the first four books of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “die vier Hauptbücher des Neuen Testaments”.
What does Evangelium mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuterEvangelium, Gospel (one of the first four books of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John)
- 2
neutergospel (the good news of salvation through Jesus)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. die vier Hauptbücher des Neuen Testaments 2. generell die christliche Glaubensbotschaft 3. verkürzt von „Verkündigung des Evangeliums“: letzte Schriftlesung aus einem Evangelium[1] im Gottesdienst; nach anderer Auffassung bestimmter Abschnitt eines der Evangelien in dieser gottesdienstlichen Lesung
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Evangelium
- Evangelium n or canonical
- Evangeliums genitive
- Evangelien plural
- declension Latinate
- Evangelii genitive
- Evangelia plural
- Evangeliorum definite genitive plural
- Evangelio dative singular
- Evangeliis dative definite plural
- Euangelium alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Evangelium?
- /evaŋˈɡeːli̯ʊm/
- [evaŋˈɡeːli̯ʊm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Evangelium
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Evangelium in German?
Evangelium appears 3.6 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).