horologium
See also: Horologium
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin horologium, from Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion). In reference to Eastern Orthodoxy, via its Byzantine Greek development. See menologium. Doublet of horologe.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /hɔɹəˈloʊd͡ʒiəm/, /hɔɹəˈloʊɡiəm/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɒɹəˈləʊd͡ʒɪəm/, /hɒɹəˈləʊɡɪəm/
Noun edit
horologium (plural horologiums or horologia)
- (archaic or historical) Synonym of chronometer or clock, a timekeeping device.
- (uncommon) Synonym of astronomical clock.
- (Christianity) Synonym of horologion, the book of hours in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism.
Related terms edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion). See mēnologium.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hoː.roˈlo.ɡi.um/, [hoːrɔˈɫ̪ɔɡiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /o.roˈlo.d͡ʒi.um/, [oroˈlɔːd͡ʒium]
Noun edit
hōrologium n (genitive hōrologiī or hōrologī); second declension
- device used to measure the time of day, particularly
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | hōrologium | hōrologia |
Genitive | hōrologiī hōrologī1 |
hōrologiōrum |
Dative | hōrologiō | hōrologiīs |
Accusative | hōrologium | hōrologia |
Ablative | hōrologiō | hōrologiīs |
Vocative | hōrologium | hōrologia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants edit
- Czech: orloj
- Dutch: horloge, horlogie; horologie, orloge, orlogie
- Emilian: arlói
- English: horologium
- Esperanto: horloĝo
- Franco-Provençal: relojo
- Old French: orloge
- Friulian: orloi
- Galician: reloxo
- Istriot: rilojo
- Italian: orologio
- Lombard: leroi
- Norman: hôlouoge (Jersey)
- Occitan: relòtge
- Old Catalan: relotge
- Portuguese: relógio, horológio
- Romanian: orologiu
- Sardinian: arrelógiu, rellozu, arrelórgiu, rológiu
- Sicilian: ralogiu, rologgiu, ruloggiu, riloggiu
- → Maltese: arloġġ
- Venetian: rełogio
- Walloon: ôrlodje
References edit
- “horologium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “horologium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- horologium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- horologium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “horologium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- horologium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “horologium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin