Angelus

See also: angelus, angélus, ángelus, and ângelus

English

Etymology

• (given name): From Latin Angelus and its etymon Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “angel”).
• (common noun): From the first word (angelus) of its Latin incipit, "Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariæ": "the Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary".

Proper noun

Angelus

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Angelo.

Noun

Angelus (plural Angeluses)

1. A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation.
2. The bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service.
   • 1879, James Albert Harrison, Spain in Profile: A Summer Among the Olives and Aloes:

     […] and having eternal aves and angeluses rung in their ears;

   • 1998, Ciaran Carson, Last Night's Fun: A Book About Irish Traditional Music, page 151:

     The yodel in it brought to mind incongruous images, full of holes as a Swiss cheese: among the alpenhorns and cuckoo clocks, cowbells clunked and donged like angeluses gone awry.

Alternative forms

• angelus

Derived terms

• Angelus bell

Translations

Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation

• Esperanto: anĝeluso
• German: Angelusgebet n
• Polish: Anioł Pański (pl) m
• Portuguese: ângelus (pt) m
• Sicilian: Àncilu m, Angelus m
• Tagalog: anghelus

bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service

Related terms

• Angel, angel
• Angelo

Further reading

• Angelus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Naugles, lagunes

Cebuano

Proper noun

Angelus

1. a male given name

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Angelus.

Latin

Proper noun

Angelus m (genitive Angelī); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Angelo

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Angelus	Angelī
genitive	Angelī	Angelōrum
dative	Angelō	Angelīs
accusative	Angelum	Angelōs
ablative	Angelō	Angelīs
vocative	Angele	Angelī

Descendants

• Italian: Angelo
• Sicilian: Àncilu
• Spanish: Ángel