Plural of encomimium; formal praises or compliments, considered as a collective body or practice.
Hybrid Latin-Greek form combining enkōmion + -ium (Latin neuter noun ending), then pluralized with -s. This represents linguistic over-elaboration where Latin and Greek are blended without a stable singular form.
This word is so rare it barely exists—it's a plural of a word that scholars themselves weren't sure how to conjugate! It shows how dead languages like Latin can be bent into weird shapes when trying to describe complex ideas.
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