tintinnabulum

English

Etymology

From Latin tintinnābulum (“a small monastic bell”).

Noun

tintinnabulum (plural tintinnabula)

1. A small clinking bell, particularly (historical) a small bells used to call monks to the certain tasks.
   • 1878, Hugh Reginald Haweis, "Bell", Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th edition, Volume III, pages 536–7:

     ...it is worth while to enumerate the different kinds of bells named by Hieronymus Magius in his work De Tintinnabulis:—1. Tintinnabulum, a little bell, otherwise called tinniolum, for refectory or dormitory, according to Belethus, but Durandus names squilla for the refectory...

2. A set of bells or metal plates used as a musical instrument or as a toy.

Synonyms

• tinniolum

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Latin

Etymology

From tintinnō (“to ring; to tinkle”) +‎ -bulum (“forming instruments”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tin.tinˈnaː.bu.lum/, [tɪn.tɪnˈnaː.bʊ.ɫũ]

Noun

tintinnābulum n (genitive tintinnābulī); second declension

1. a bell, specifically a tintinnabulum.

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	tintinnābulum	tintinnābula
genitive	tintinnābulī	tintinnābulōrum
dative	tintinnābulō	tintinnābulīs
accusative	tintinnābulum	tintinnābula
ablative	tintinnābulō	tintinnābulīs
vocative	tintinnābulum	tintinnābula

Synonyms

• tinniolum

Derived terms

• tintinnābulātus

Related terms

• tintinnāculus
• tintinnō
• tintinnum

Descendants

• English: tintinnabulum
• Portuguese: tintinábulo

References

• tintinnabulum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tintinnabulum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “tintinnabulum”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “tintinnabulum” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• tintinnabulum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tintinnabulum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin