ὡρολόγιον

See also: Ωρολόγιον and ωρολόγιο

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὥρα (hṓra, “hour”) +‎ λέγω (légō, “count”) +‎ -ιον (-ion).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hɔː.ro.ló.ɡi.on/ → /o.roˈlo.ʝi.on/ → /o.roˈlo.ʝi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hɔː.ro.ló.ɡi.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

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ὡρολόγιον; τοῦ ὡρολογίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὡρολόγιον tò hōrológion	τὼ ὡρολογίω tṑ hōrologíō	τᾰ̀ ὡρολόγιᾰ tà hōrológia
Genitive	τοῦ ὡρολογίου toû hōrologíou	τοῖν ὡρολογίοιν toîn hōrologíoin	τῶν ὡρολογίων tôn hōrologíōn
Dative	τῷ ὡρολογίῳ tôi hōrologíōi	τοῖν ὡρολογίοιν toîn hōrologíoin	τοῖς ὡρολογίοις toîs hōrologíois
Accusative	τὸ ὡρολόγιον tò hōrológion	τὼ ὡρολογίω tṑ hōrologíō	τᾰ̀ ὡρολόγιᾰ tà hōrológia
Vocative	ὡρολόγιον hōrológion	ὡρολογίω hōrologíō	ὡρολόγιᾰ hōrológia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ρολόι (rolói)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: reloj
• Hebrew: אוֹרְלוֹגִין (orlogin)
• Latin: hōrologium (see there for further descendants)
  • Basque: erloju
  • Catalan: rellotge
    • Asturian: reló
    • Galician: reloxo
    • Portuguese: relógio
    • Spanish: reloj
      • Tagalog: relos
      • Waray-Waray: relo
  • French: horloge
  • Friulian: orloi
  • Istriot: rilojo
  • Italian: orologio
    • Maltese: arloġġ

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