ὡρολόγιον

See also: Ωρολόγιον and ωρολόγιο

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥

Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti

Proto-Hellenic *légō

Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?

Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion)

Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον

From ὡρολόγος (hōrológos, “Egyptian astrologer”) +‎ -ιον (-ion), the former from ὥρα (hṓra, “hour”) +‎ λέγω (légō, “to put in order”) + -ος (-os).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.roˈlo.ʝi.on/ → /o.roˈlo.ʝi.on/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)o.roˈlo.ɡi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.roˈlo.ʝi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.roˈlo.ʝi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.roˈlo.ʝi.on/

Noun

ὡρολόγιον • (hōrológion) n (genitive ὡρολογίου); second declension

1. (Koine) mechanism for telling the time, clock
2. (Byzantine) Byzantine book of hours, a liturgical book containing the text of the daily Liturgy of the Hours of prayer as practiced in Christian churches observing the Byzantine liturgy

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ὡρολόγῐον; τοῦ ὡρολογῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὡρολόγῐον tò hōrológĭon	τὼ ὡρολογῐ́ω tṑ hōrologĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ὡρολόγῐᾰ tằ hōrológĭă
Genitive	τοῦ ὡρολογῐ́ου toû hōrologĭ́ou	τοῖν ὡρολογῐ́οιν toîn hōrologĭ́oin	τῶν ὡρολογῐ́ων tôn hōrologĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ὡρολογῐ́ῳ tōî hōrologĭ́ōi	τοῖν ὡρολογῐ́οιν toîn hōrologĭ́oin	τοῖς ὡρολογῐ́οις toîs hōrologĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ ὡρολόγῐον tò hōrológĭon	τὼ ὡρολογῐ́ω tṑ hōrologĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ὡρολόγῐᾰ tằ hōrológĭă
Vocative	ὡρολόγῐον hōrológĭon	ὡρολογῐ́ω hōrologĭ́ō	ὡρολόγῐᾰ hōrológĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὡρολογῐκός (hōrologĭkós)

Descendants

• Greek: ρολόι (rolói)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: reloj
• Hebrew: אוֹרְלוֹגִין (orlogin)
• Latin: hōrologium (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ὡρολόγιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὡρολόγιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὡρολόγιον in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• ὡρολόγιον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011