horologium

See also: Horologium

English

Alternative forms

• Horologium

Etymology

From Latin horologium, from Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion). In reference to Eastern Orthodoxy, via its Byzantine Greek development. See menologium. Doublet of horologe.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɔɹəˈloʊd͡ʒiəm/, /hɔɹəˈloʊɡiəm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɒɹəˈləʊd͡ʒɪəm/, /hɒɹəˈləʊɡɪəm/

Noun

horologium (plural horologiums or horologia)

1. (archaic or historical) Synonym of chronometer or clock, a timekeeping device.
2. (uncommon) Synonym of astronomical clock.
3. (Christianity) Synonym of horologion, the book of hours in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism.

Related terms

• horologic
• horological
• horologically
• horologist
• horology

 

Latin

Hōrologium tempus ostendit.

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-?

Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥

Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios)?

Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion)

Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion)bor.

Latin horologium

From Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion). See mēnologium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hoː.roˈlo.ɡi.um/, [hoːrɔˈɫ̪ɔɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.roˈlo.d͡ʒi.um/, [oroˈlɔːd͡ʒium]

Noun

hōrologium n (genitive hōrologiī or hōrologī); second declension

1. device used to measure the time of day, particularly
   1. sundial
   2. water clock
   3. (New Latin) clock, watch

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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

• Czech: orloj
• Dutch: horloge, horlogie (archaic), horologie, orloge, orlogie (obsolete)
  • Afrikaans: horlosie
  • Negerhollands: horlooschi, holosi, holochi
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: holosi (dated)
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: holósi
  • → Caribbean Javanese: arloji
  • → Indonesian: arloji
    • → Petjo: airlodji
  • → Papiamentu: oloshi, horlosji, holósji
  • → Sranan Tongo: oloisi
    • → Aukan: oloisi
    • → Kari'na: olosi
    • → Saramaccan: olóísi
    • → Trió: oroisi, joroisi
• Emilian: arlói
• English: horologium
• Esperanto: horloĝo
• Franco-Provençal: relojo
• Friulian: orloi
• Galician: reloxo
• Istriot: rilojo
• Italian: orologio
• Lombard: leroi
• Norman: hôlouoge (Jersey)
• Occitan: relòtge
• Old Catalan: relotge
  • → Aragonese: reloch
  • → Asturian: reló
  • → Basque: erloju
  • Catalan: rellotge
  • → Spanish: reloj
    • Chavacano: reloj
    • → Cebuano: relo
    • → Ilocano: relo
    • → Kapampangan: relu
    • → Pangasinan: relo
    • → Portuguese: relógio
    • → Tagalog: relo
• Old French: orloge
  • French: horloge
  • Norman: oriloge
    • English: horologe
• Portuguese: relógio, horológio
• Romanian: orologiu
• Sardinian: arrelógiu, rellozu, arrelórgiu, rológiu
• Sicilian: raloggiu, ruloggiu, ralogiu, riloggiu, rologgiu (italianzed, misspelled)
  • Maltese: arloġġ
• Venetan: 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 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