Angelus

See also: angelus, angélus, ángelus, and ângelus

English

Proper noun

Angelus

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Angelo.

Noun

Angelus (plural Angeluses)

1. A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation (from its incipit, "Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariæ": "the Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary").
2. The bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service.
   • 1879, James Albert Harrison, Spain in Profile: A Summer Among the Olives and Aloes, page

     […] and having eternal aves and angeluses rung in their ears;

   • 1998, Ciaran Carson, Last Night's Fun: A Book About Irish Traditional Music, page 151

     The yodel in it brought to mind incongruous images, full of holes as a Swiss cheese: among the alpenhorns and cuckoo clocks, cowbells clunked and donged like angeluses gone awry.

Alternative forms

• angelus

Translations

Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation

• German: Angelusgebet n
• Portuguese: ângelus m
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• Tagalog: anghelus

bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service

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Anagrams

• Naugles, lagunes

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Cebuano

Proper noun

Angelus

1. a male given name

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Angelus.

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Latin

Proper noun

Angelus m (genitive Angelī); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Angelo.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Angelus	Angelī
Genitive	Angelī	Angelōrum
Dative	Angelō	Angelīs
Accusative	Angelum	Angelōs
Ablative	Angelō	Angelīs
Vocative	Angele	Angelī

Descendants

• Italian: Angelo
• Spanish: Ángel