menologium

See also: Menologium

English

Alternative forms

• Menologium

Etymology

From Medieval Latin mēnologium, from Ancient and Byzantine Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion), from μήν (mḗn, “month”) + λόγιον (lógion, “writing, record, announcement”), itself from λόγος (lógos, “writing, recording”). Doublet of menologion, menologe, and menology.

Noun

menologium (plural menologiums or menologia)

1. A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
   • 1976, Robert E.A. Palmer, "A Poem of All Seasons", Phoenix, Vol. 30, No. 2, p. 169:

     The elder Pliny advises the sowing of certain crops between the Saturnalia (fixed at 17 December) and the Compitalia, which the roughly contemporary menologia indefinitely set in January.

   The Roman farming menologia show the astrological information and religious festivals for each month along with their matching agricultural activities.

   1. (Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) Synonym of menaion, a book detailing the propers and hagiographic canons for the fixed dates of the liturgical year.
   2. (Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) Synonym of synaxarium, a hagiography covering similar material equivalent to a Catholic martyrology.
   3. (Eastern Orthodoxy) Synonym of kalendar, any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings.
   4. (Roman Catholicism, often capitalized) A work providing biographies of uncanonized members of a religious order in similar style to a martyrology, frequently read within the order but forbidden for use with the liturgy itself.
   5. (Roman Catholicism, uncommon, often capitalized) Synonym of martyrology, a hagiography of Catholic saints.
2. (historical) Synonym of menologem, a stylized date acting as a signature on some documents of the Byzantine Empire.

Synonyms

• menologion (chiefly Greek contexts), menology (chiefly Mesopotamian contexts or inexact), menologe (rare)

Derived terms

• menological

 

Translations

a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts

• French: ménologe (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient: μηνολόγιον n (mēnológion)

  Modern: μηνολόγιο (el) n (minológio), μηναίο (el) n (minaío)

• Italian: menologio
• Latin: menologium n, menologio n
• Russian: месяцеслов (ru) m (mesjaceslov)
• Spanish: menología

See also

• horologium

Latin

Alternative forms

• Mēnologium

Etymology

From Ancient and Byzantine Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion), from μήν (mḗn, “month”) + -ο- (-o-, “-o-”) + λόγιον (lógion, “writing, record, announcement”), from λόγος (lógos, “writing, recording”) + -ιον (-ion, “-ion: forming related nouns”). See hōrologium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meː.noˈlo.ɡi.um/, [meːnɔˈɫ̪ɔɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.noˈlo.d͡ʒi.um/, [menoˈlɔːd͡ʒium]

Proper noun

mēnologium n (genitive mēnologiī or mēnologī); second declension

1. menologium, a monthly record

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mēnologium	mēnologia
Genitive	mēnologiī mēnologī1	mēnologiōrum
Dative	mēnologiō	mēnologiīs
Accusative	mēnologium	mēnologia
Ablative	mēnologiō	mēnologiīs
Vocative	mēnologium	mēnologia

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

Descendants

• English: menologium, menology
• French: ménologe
  • English: menologe
• Italian: menologio