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
- A sundial
- A water clock
- (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
- 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
- Basque: erloju
- Old Catalan: relotge
- Aragonese: reloch
- Asturian: reló
- Catalan: rellotge
- Spanish: reloj
- Cebuano: relo
- Tagalog: relo
- Portuguese: relógio, horológio
- Romanian: orologiu
- Sardinian: arrelógiu, rellozu, arrelórgiu, rológiu
- Sicilian: ralogiu, rologgiu, ruloggiu, riloggiu
- → Maltese: arloġġ
- 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