horologium

See also: Horologium

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion).

Pronunciation

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

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, horlogie; horologie, orloge, orlogie
    • 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
      • Galibi Carib: olosi
      • Saramaccan: olóísi
      • Trió: oroisi, joroisi
  • Emilian: arlói
  • English: horologe
  • Esperanto: horloĝo
  • Franco-Provençal: relojo
  • French: horloge
  • 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
  • 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 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, 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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