Elagabalus en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /ˌɛləˈɡæbələs/ (US)
- ĕl'əgăbʹələs (US)
- (US) audio
Etymology
From Latin Elagabalus. The emperor is named for the deity, whose name is from a Semitic language and means "god of the mountain"; see the Latin entry for more.
Meanings
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The deity Elagabal, venerated in ancient times at Emesa in Syria (and later elsewhere in the Roman Empire), identified with a large black stone.
Elagabalus, who was a Sun-god and the patron deity of Emesa, was worshipped […]
1958, Ivar Lissner, Power and Folly: The Story of the Caesars:Obviously, they hoped to conceal the failure of their unhappy experiment in emperorship before, when they stressed the priesthood of Syrian Emesa's main deity Elagabalus as the key factor […]
2019, Elias Koulakiotis, Charlotte Dunn, Political Religions in the Greco-Roman World, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 111:
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(Ancient-Rome) The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (reigned 218–222), noted for eccentricity, femininity, decadence, and disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos.
Racial prejudice also played a part, says Icks: before coming to Rome to rule it, Elagabalus was a priest in an obscure cult in Syria that venerated a black stone meteorite – a culture that would have been deeply strange to the Romans.
2023 November 24, Esther Addley, “Was Roman emperor Elagabalus really trans – and does it really matter?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Synonyms
Translations (17)
ko 엘라가발루스 (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · la Hēliogabalus (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · ru Элагаба́л (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · la Elagabalus (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · grc Ἐλαγάβαλος (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · pt Elagábalo (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · es Elagábalo (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · el Ελαγάβαλος (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · el Ηλιογάβαλος (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · de Elagabal (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · ar إِيل جَبَل (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · es Heliogábalo (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · fr Élagabale (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · it Elagabalo (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · frm Elagabale (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · grc Ἡλιογάβαλος (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus) · ja エラガバルス (a Roman emperor — see also Heliogabalus)