different between scapular vs rosary

English

Etymology

From Latin scapul?re, from Latin scapula (“shoulder”). Compare scapulary.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?skapj?l?/

Noun

scapular (plural scapulars)

1. (Christianity) A short cloak worn around the shoulders, adopted as part of the uniform of various religious orders, later often with an embroidered image of a saint. [from 15th c.]
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 30:

     A scapular, or friar's coat, for example, was a coveted object to be worn as a preservative against pestilence or the ague […]

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 409:

     She granted the Whitefriars identical powers to the Blackfriars, to bless a part of their friar's habit which draped over their shoulders and was known as the scapular; now laity could wear it and derive spiritual privileges from it.

2. (ornithology) One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.
3. A bandage passing over the shoulder to support it, or to retain another bandage in place.
4. (Christianity) A devotional object, typically consisting of two rectangular pieces of cloth (often with an embroidered image or text) joined with cloth bands and worn with one piece over the chest and one in the back.

Translations

Adjective

scapular (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the scapula. [from 18th c.]

Related terms

• scaption

Translations

Anagrams

• capsular, crapulas

Romanian

Etymology

From French scapulaire

Adjective

scapular m or n (feminine singular scapular?, masculine plural scapulari, feminine and neuter plural scapulare)

1. scapular

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• Rosary (only for the prayer)

Etymology

From Latin ros?rium, here in its sense as a garland of roses. The coin usage referred to the laurel wreath appearing on the obverse bust, as opposed to the bare head on the pollard. Doublet of Rosario.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?z??i/

Noun

rosary (plural rosaries)

1. Prayer beads, a string of beads used to keep track of repetitions in prayer, particularly in the Roman Catholic Marian prayer "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria)
2. A Roman Catholic devotion involving the repetition of a series of Marian prayers, usually 5, 15, or 20 decades of "Hail Marys", each decade beginning with "Our Father" and ending with "Glory Be to the Father", but sometimes including other Roman Catholic, Anglican, or Lutheran prayers.
3. (by extension) A series or collection of thoughts, literary pieces, etc. intended for similar contemplation.
   • 1654, Jeremy Taylor, XXVIII Sermons preached at Golden Grove […]

     Every day propound to yourself a rosary or a chaplet of good works to present to God at night.

4. (historical numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe as a counterfeit debased form of the sterling silver penny of Edward I, at first accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.
5. A rose garden.

Translations

See also

• (13th-c. counterfeit coin): pollard, crockard, mitre, leonine, scalding, steeping, eagle

Further reading

• rosary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• rosary (coin) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• rosaries on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Information about Rosaries

Anagrams

• Raysor