calendarium

English

Etymology

From Latin calendārium. Doublet of calendar.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkælənˈdɛəɹi.əm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkælənˈdɛɹi.əm/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm

Noun

calendarium (plural calendaria or calendariums)

1. A calendar or timeline or events.
   • 1865, “PHŒNI’CIA”, in Chambers’s Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, volume VII, London: W. and R. Chambers, page 497:

     Phœnician names occur in Suidas, Dioscorides, Apuleius, in martyrologies, calendariums, Acts of Councils, in Church Fathers (Augustine, Priscianus, Servus), &c.

   • 1910, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, page 249:

     A certain Paolo Clarante also composed a calendarium and offered it to the pope for examination.

   • 1943, The Sight-Saving Review, page 213:

     His stories were not new but were arranged in order as in the several calendaria.

   • 1976, Paper, page 96:

     ALTHOUGH starch is an important raw material of the paper making industry, the starch indusry has not been able to cope with the technical specification requirements for coated packaging boards, nor with those for gravure coated papers, nor with the better offset grades typically as used for the higher quality advertising material, calendariums and art printings.

   • 1991, JPRS Report: East Europe, page 38:

     This is attested to also by the calendariums of Czech and Moravian codices with liturgical content.

Latin

Alternative forms

• kalendārium

Etymology

From calendārius (“of the calends”), from calō (“to call out”). By surface analysis, calō +‎ -ārium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ka.ɫɛnˈdaː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ka.lenˈdaː.ri.um]

Noun

calendārium n (genitive calendāriī or calendārī); second declension

1. an account book or debt book

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	calendārium	calendāria
genitive	calendāriī calendārī1	calendāriōrum
dative	calendāriō	calendāriīs
accusative	calendārium	calendāria
ablative	calendāriō	calendāriīs
vocative	calendārium	calendāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• calendālis
• kalendae

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: ⇒ lùndaras
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Romanian: cărindar
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: calendaio, calendaro (archaic); calendario (latinized) (see there for further descendants)
  • Neapolitan: calannaro; calannario (latinized)
  • Sicilian: calinnaru; calinnariu, calannariu (latinized)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: calendier, kalendier
    • French: calendrier
    • Norman: calendriyi
    • → Middle Dutch: kalendier
      • Dutch: kalender (see there for further descendants)
    • → Middle English: kalender (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: calendier
    • Occitan: calendièr

Borrowings:

• → Albanian: kallnor (early), kalendar (late)
• → Asturian: calendariu
• → Catalan: calendari
• → Czech: kalendář
• → Danish: kalender
• → English: calendarium
• → Estonian: kalender
• → Friulian: calendari
• → French: calendaire
• → Galician: calendario
• → Georgian: კალენდარი (ḳalendari)
• → Hungarian: kalendárium
• → Latvian: kalendārs
• → Lithuanian: kalendorius
• → Lombard: calendari
• → Middle High German: kalender
  • German: Kalender (see there for further descendants)
  • Luxembourgish: Kalenner
  • Pennsylvania German: Kalenner
  • Vilamovian: kalender
• → Middle Low German: kalendarium, kalender, kalander
  • Low German: Kalenner, Klenner
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kalender
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: kalender
• → Polish: kalendarz (see there for further descendants)
• → Portuguese: calendário
• → Romanian: calendar
• → Romansh: chalender, calender
• → Sardinian: calendàriu
• → Slovak: kalendár
  • → Pannonian Rusyn: календар (kalendar)
• → Slovene: koledar
• → Spanish: calendario (see there for further descendants)
• → Swedish: kalender
  • → Finnish: kalenteri

References

• “calendarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "calendarium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “calendarium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “calendarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• calendarium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “calendarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin