angelus

See also: Angelus, angélus, ángelus, and ângelus

French

Noun

angelus m (plural angelus)

1. Alternative spelling of angélus

Further reading

• “angelus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• engluas, langues

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.ɡe.lus/, [ˈaŋ.ɡɛ.ɫʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.d͡ʒe.lus/

Noun

angelus m (genitive angelī); second declension

1. angel
2. messenger

Declension

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	angelus	angelī
Genitive	angelī	angelōrum
Dative	angelō	angelīs
Accusative	angelum	angelōs
Ablative	angelō	angelīs
Vocative	angele	angelī

Related terms

• angelicus m

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: înger
• Italian: angelo
• Old French: angle, ange, angele, angre, enge
  • French: ange
    • Haitian Creole: zanj
  • Norman: ange
  • Walloon: andje
  • → Middle English: angel, aungel
    • English: angel
      • Jamaican Creole: aynjel
      • → Chinese: 安琪兒 (ānqí'ér)
      • → Hawaiian: ʻānela
      • → Lingala: anjelu, anzelu
      • → Malagasy: anjely
      • → Xhosa: ingelosi
    • Scots: aungel
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: ánxel
  • Leonese: ánxel, xel
• Old Portuguese: angeo
  • Galician: anxo
  • Portuguese: anjo
    • Kabuverdianu: ánju
    • → Kadiwéu: aanjo
  • → Mirandese: anjo
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: àngel
  • Occitan: àngel
• Old Spanish: angel
  • Ladino: andjel
  • Spanish: ángel
    • → Quechua: anqil
    • → Tagalog: anghel
    • → Waray-Waray: anghel
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: agnul
  • Romansch: anghel, aunghel, aungel
• Sardinian: àgnelu, ànzelu, ànghelu, àngelu
• Sicilian: àncilu, ànciulu
• Venetian: ànxelo
• → Albanian: engjëll
• → Basque: aingeru
• → Bourguignon: aingelus
• → Breton: ael
• → Chichewa: mngelo
• → Cornish: el
• → French: angélus
• → Germanic: *angiluz (see there for further descendants)
• → Hungarian: angyal
• → Maltese: anġlu
• → Old Irish: aingel
  • Irish: aingeal
  • Manx: ainle, aile
  • Scottish Gaelic: aingeal
• → Romanian: angel
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анђел

  Latin: anđel

• → Welsh: angel

References

• angelus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• angelus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• angelus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑnɡʲɛlʊs]

Noun

angelus m

1. accusative plural of angelas