Horologium

See also: horologium

English

Etymology

See horologium. As a location in Rome, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Augustī (“Sundial of Augustus”). As a constellation, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Oscillitorium (“Pendulum Clock”), coined in 1763 by the French astronomer De Lacaille to honor the Dutch astronomer and mathematician Christian Huygens, who had written a major work by that name.

Proper noun

Horologium

1. (historical) Synonym of Tower of the Winds, a monument in ancient Athens that included a clepsydra and multiple prominent sundials.
2. (historical) Synonym of Solarium, a monument in ancient Rome whose obelisk was once believed to have acted as a sundial gnomon.
3. (astronomy) A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a pendulum clock. It lies between the constellations Fornax and Dorado.
4. (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of horologium, the book of hours in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.

Derived terms

• Horologii

Translations

constellation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 時鐘座／时钟座 (zh) (Shízhōngzuò)

• Finnish: Heilurikello
• French: Horloge (fr)
• Galician: Reloxo (gl)
• German: Pendeluhr (de) f
• Greek: Ωρολόγιον (el) n (Orológion)
• Irish: an Clog m
• Japanese: とけい座 (ja) (Tokeiza)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Pennelklock f

• Malay: Jam
• Polish: Zegar (pl) m
• Russian: Часы́ (ru) m pl (Časý)
• Spanish: Horologium

Spanish

Etymology

From New Latin Horologium.

Proper noun

Horologium ?

1. (astronomy) Horologium (constellation)