horologium

See also: Horologium

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hoː.roˈlo.ɡi.um/, [hoː.rɔˈɫ̪ɔ.ɡi.ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.roˈlo.d͡ʒi.um/, [ɔ.rɔˈlɔː.d͡ʒi.um]

Noun

hōrologium n (genitive hōrologiī or hōrologī); second declension

1. A sundial
2. A water clock
3. (later Latin): A clock

Declension

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

• Dutch: horloge
  • Afrikaans: horlosie
  • → Indonesian: arloji
  • → Papiamentu: oloshi
• Emilian: arlói
• English: horologe
• Esperanto: horloĝo

• Franco-Provençal: relojo
• French: horloge
• Friulian: orloi
• Galician: reloxo
• Istriot: rilojo
• Italian: orologio
• Norman: hôlouoge (Jersey)

• Occitan: relòtge
• Old Catalan: relotge
  • Aragonese: reloch
  • Asturian: reló
  • Basque: erloju
  • Catalan: rellotge
  • Spanish: reloj
    • Cebuano: relo
    • Tagalog: relo
• Portuguese: relógio, horológio
• Romanian: orologiu
• Sardinian: arrelógiu, rellozu, arrelórgiu, rológiu
• Sicilian: ralogiu, rologgiu, ruloggiu, riloggiu
  • → Maltese: arloġġ
• Venetian: rełogio
• Walloon: ôrlodje

References

• 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, 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) 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