different between horologe vs horologium

English

Etymology

From Latin h?rologium (“sundial; clock”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (h?rológion). Cognate with French horloge, Italian orologio, and Spanish reloj. Doublet of Horologium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?r?l?d?/

Noun

horologe (plural horologes)

1. (obsolete) A clock or watch.
   • 1597: He'll watch the horologe a double set, If drink rock not his cradle. — Shakespeare, Othello, ii 3
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. II, Gospel of Mammonism

     A SOUL is not like wind (spiritus, or breath) contained within a capsule; the ALMIGHTY MAKER is not like a Clockmaker that once, in old immemorial ages, having made his Horologe of a Universe, sits ever since and sees it go! Not at all. Hence comes Atheism; come, as we say, many other isms […]

Related terms

• Horologium

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (h?rológion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ho?.ro?lo.?i.um/, [ho????????i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.ro?lo.d??i.um/, [????l??d??ium]

Noun

h?rologium n (genitive h?rologi? or h?rolog?); second declension

1. A sundial
2. A water clock
3. (later Latin): A clock

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Descendants

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, 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?^[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