Angelus
English edit
Etymology edit
- (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 edit
Angelus
- A male given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Angelo.
Noun edit
Angelus (plural Angeluses)
- A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation.
- 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.
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Translations edit
Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation
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bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service
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Proper noun edit
Angelus
- a male given name
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Angelus.
Latin edit
Proper noun edit
Angelus m (genitive Angelī); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Angelo
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | Angelus | Angelī |
Genitive | Angelī | Angelōrum |
Dative | Angelō | Angelīs |
Accusative | Angelum | Angelōs |
Ablative | Angelō | Angelīs |
Vocative | Angele | Angelī |