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See also: Horologium
English
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[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.
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[edit]Latin
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Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion). See mēnologium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) 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 (archaic); horologie, orloge, orlogie (obsolete)
- 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
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