angelus

See also: Angelus, angélus, ángelus, and ângelus

French

Noun

angelus m (plural angelus)

1. Alternative spelling of angélus

Further reading

• “angelus” in 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.ɫ̪ʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.d͡ʒe.lus/, [ˈan̠ʲ.d͡ʒɛ.lus]

Noun

angelus m (genitive angelī); second declension

1. angel
2. messenger

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

Related terms

• angelicus m

Descendants

• Romanian: înger
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: angelo, angiolo, agnolo
  • Neapolitan: agnelo, àngiulo
  • Sicilian: àncilu, ànciulu
    • → Maltese: anġlu
• Old French: angle, ange, angele, angre, enge
  • Middle French: ange, angele, aingle, engle, angle, angre
    • French: ange
      • Haitian Creole: zanj
    • Norman: aunge
  • Picard: anche
  • Walloon: andje
  • → Middle English: angel, aungel
    • English: angel (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: aungel
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: àngel
  • Occitan: àngel
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: agnul
  • Romansch: anghel, aunghel, aungel
• Sardinian: àgnelu, ànzelu, ànghelu, àngelu
• Venetian: ànxelo
• Old Portuguese: angeo
  • Galician: anxo
  • Portuguese: anjo
    • Kabuverdianu: ánju
    • → Kadiwéu: aanjo
  • → Mirandese: anjo

Borrowings

• Albanian: engjëll
• Basque: aingeru
• Bourguignon: aingelus
• Breton: ael
• Chichewa: mngelo
• Cornish: el
• French: angélus
• West Germanic: *angil (see there for further descendants)
• Hungarian: angyal
• Old Czech: anděl, anjel
  • Czech: anděl
  • → Slovak: anjel
• Old Irish: aingel
  • Irish: aingeal
  • Manx: ainle, aile
  • Scottish Gaelic: aingeal
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: ánxel
  • Leonese: ánxel, xel
• Old Polish: angieł
  • Old Polish: angioł, anjoł
    • Polish: anioł
    • → Kashubian: ãniół
• Old Spanish: angel
  • Ladino: andjel
  • Spanish: ángel (see there for further descendants)
• Romanian: angel
• Serbo-Croatian: anđel / анђел
• Middle Welsh: angel
  • 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