menologium
See also: Menologium
English
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editEtymology
editFrom 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
editmenologium (plural menologiums or menologia)
- 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.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) Synonym of menaion, a book detailing the propers and hagiographic canons for the fixed dates of the liturgical year.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) Synonym of synaxarium, a hagiography covering similar material equivalent to a Catholic martyrology.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) Synonym of kalendar, any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings.
- (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.
- (Roman Catholicism, uncommon, often capitalized) Synonym of martyrology, a hagiography of Catholic saints.
- 1976, Robert E.A. Palmer, "A Poem of All Seasons", Phoenix, Vol. 30, No. 2, p. 169:
- (historical) Synonym of menologem, a stylized date acting as a signature on some documents of the Byzantine Empire.
Synonyms
edit- menologion (chiefly Greek contexts), menology (chiefly Mesopotamian contexts or inexact), menologe (rare)
Derived terms
editTranslations
edita monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts
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See also
editLatin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom 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
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /meː.noˈlo.ɡi.um/, [meːnɔˈɫ̪ɔɡiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.noˈlo.d͡ʒi.um/, [menoˈlɔːd͡ʒium]
Proper noun
editmēnologium n (genitive mēnologiī or mēnologī); second declension
- menologium, a monthly record
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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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
edit- English: menologium, menology
- French: ménologe
- English: menologe
- Italian: menologio
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