gallicinium

Latin

FWOTD – 2 December 2018

Alternative forms

• gallecinium

Etymology

gallus (“rooster”) +‎ canō (“sing”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡal.liˈki.ni.um/, [ɡälːʲɪˈkɪniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡal.liˈt͡ʃi.ni.um/, [ɡälːiˈt͡ʃiːnium]

Noun

gallicinium n (genitive galliciniī or gallicinī); second declension

1. The period of the early morning when roosters begin to crow, cockcrow, daybreak.

Usage notes

In Bede et al., a particular period of night following intempestum (“midnight”) and before the first light of dawn.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gallicinium	gallicinia
Genitive	galliciniī gallicinī1	galliciniōrum
Dative	galliciniō	galliciniīs
Accusative	gallicinium	gallicinia
Ablative	galliciniō	galliciniīs
Vocative	gallicinium	gallicinia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Hypernyms

• nox

Descendants

• Italian: gallicinio

References

• “gallicinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gallicinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "Anglo-Saxon Manual of Astronomy", p. 6, in Popular Treatises on Science Written during the Middle Ages (1841), London: Historical Society of Science.