different between horarium vs horary

Latin

Etymology

h?ra +? -?rium

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ho??ra?.ri.um/, [ho???ä?ri???]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /o?ra?.ri.u/, [o?ra?r?u]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o?ra.ri.um/, [?????rium]

Noun

h?r?rium n (genitive h?r?ri? or h?r?r?); second declension

1. (Late Latin) dial, clock

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• ? Vulgar Latin: *h?r?riolum
  • Italian: oriolo

References

• horarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• horarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin h?r?rius, from h?ra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?????i/

Adjective

horary (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to an hour or hours.
2. Occurring every hour; hourly.
3. (obsolete) Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived.
4. (astrology, of a question) Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 276:

     But every kind of personal problem could be dealt with as an horary question.

   • 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 295:

     This aspect of astrology impinged on medicine too, since an horary question could be a request for diagnosis, in which case the doctor might answer it by inspecting not just the arrangement of the heavens but also a sample of the patient's urine, bearing in mind when it was passed or when it was brought to him.

Translations

Noun

horary (plural horaries)

1. (rare, ecclesiastical) A book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.
2. A narrative or account that is kept hourly.
3. A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “horary”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN