calendarium

Latin

Alternative forms

• kalendārium

Etymology

From Kalendae (“Kalends, first day of the month”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via *kalendārius (relating to the Kalends), from calō (“I call out”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.lenˈdaː.ri.um/, [käɫ̪ɛn̪ˈd̪äːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.lenˈda.ri.um/, [kälen̪ˈd̪äːrium]

Noun

calendārium n (genitive calendāriī or calendārī); second declension

1. An account book, debt book.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	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, kalendālis
• Kalendae
• kalendārius

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Romanian: cărindar
• Old French: calendier, kalendier
  • Middle French: chalendrier
    • French: calendrier
  • Norman: calendriyi
  • → Middle English: kalender, calender, kalendere, calendder, kalendar, kalander, calendre, kalunder, calundere
    • English: calendar, kalendar (archaic); calender (obsolete)
      • Tok Pisin: kalenda
      • → Japanese: カレンダー (karendā)
      • → Korean: 카렌더 (karendeo)
      • → Swahili: kalenda
    • Scots: calendar
    • → Welsh: calendr
• Old Occitan: calendier
  • Occitan: calendièr
• → Albanian: kallënduar, kallnor (early borrowing)
• → Albanian: kalendar (late borrowing)
• → Asturian: calendariu
• → Belarusian: каляндар (kaljandar)
• → Catalan: calendàriu
• → Czech: kalendář
• → Danish: kalender
• → Dutch: kalender
  • Afrikaans: kalender
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: kalendar
  • → Indonesian: kalender
  • → Papiamentu: kalènder
• → Estonian: kalender
• → Finnish: kalenteri
• → French: calendaire
• → Galician: calendario
• → Georgian: კალენდარი (ḳalendari)
• → Hungarian: kalendárium
• → Indonesian: kalender
• → Italian: calendario
• → Latvian: kalendārs
• → Lithuanian: kalendorius
• → Malay: kalendar
• → Maltese: kalendarju
• → Middle High German: kalender
  • German: Kalender
    • → Bulgarian: календар (kalendar)
    • → Macedonian: календар (kalendar)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: календар / kalendar
  • Luxembourgish: Kalenner
  • Pennsylvania German: Kalenner
  • Vilamovian: kalender
• → Norwegian: kalender
• → Polish: kalendarz
  • → Russian: календа́рь (kalendárʹ)
    • → Bezhta: календар (kalendar)
    • → Kildin Sami: календарь (kal’endar’)
    • → Mongolian: календарь (kalendarʹ)
    • → Uzbek: kalendar
    • → Yakut: халандаар (qalandaar)
    • → Yiddish: קאַלענדאַר (kalendar)
• → Portuguese: calendário
• → Romansch: chalender, calender
• → Sardinian: calendàriu
• → Sicilian: calinnariu, calannariu
• → Slovene: koledar
• → Spanish: calendario
  • > Chavacano: calendario (inherited)
  • → Cebuano: kalendaryo
  • → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: calendario
  • → Hiligaynon: kalendaryo
  • → Ilocano: kalendario
  • → Kapampangan: kalendariu
  • → Tagalog: kalendaryo
  • → Waray-Waray: kalendaryo
• → Swedish: kalender
• ⇒ Sardinian: lùndaras

References

• “calendarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• calendarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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 (2016 July 16 (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