menologium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛnəˈloʊdʒiəm/
Forms: form: menologiums
form: menologia
form: Menologium
Etymology: From Medieval Latin mēnologium, from Ancient and Byzantine Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion), from μήν (mḗn, “month”) + λόγιον (lógion, “writing, record, announcement”), itself from λόγος (lógos, “writing, recording”). Doublet of menologion, menologe, and menology.
Senses: examples: text: The elder Pliny advises the sowing of certain crops between the Saturnalia (fixed at 17 December) and the Compitalia, which the roughly contemporary menologia indefinitely set in January.
ref: 1976, Robert E.A. Palmer, "A Poem of All Seasons", Phoenix, Vol. 30, No. 2, p. 169
text: The Roman farming menologia show the astrological information and religious festivals for each month along with their matching agricultural activities.
glosses: A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
glosses: A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
Synonym of menaion, a book detailing the propers and hagiographic canons for the fixed dates of the liturgical year.
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
synonyms: word: menaion
extra: a book detailing the propers and hagiographic canons for the fixed dates of the liturgical year
glosses: A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
Synonym of synaxarium, a hagiography covering similar material equivalent to a Catholic martyrology.
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
synonyms: word: synaxarium
extra: a hagiography covering similar material equivalent to a Catholic martyrology
glosses: A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
Synonym of kalendar, any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings.
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
synonyms: word: kalendar
word: any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
A work providing biographies of uncanonized members of a religious order in similar style to a martyrology, frequently read within the order but forbidden for use with the liturgy itself.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
Synonym of martyrology, a hagiography of Catholic saints.
synonyms: word: martyrology
extra: a hagiography of Catholic saints
glosses: Synonym of menologem, a stylized date acting as a signature on some documents of the Byzantine Empire.
synonyms: word: menologem
extra: a stylized date acting as a signature on some documents of the Byzantine Empire
Synonyms: english: chiefly Greek contexts
translation: chiefly Greek contexts
word: menologion
english: chiefly Mesopotamian contexts or inexact
translation: chiefly Mesopotamian contexts or inexact
word: menology
word: menologe
Derived terms: menological
Related terms: horologium