ὡρολόγιον

See also: Ωρολόγιον and ωρολόγιο

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-?

Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥

Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios)?

Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion)

Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion)

From ὥρα (hṓra, “hour”) +‎ λέγω (légō, “to put in order”) +‎ -ιον (-ion).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.roˈlo.ʝi.on/ → /o.roˈlo.ʝi.on/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)o.roˈlo.ɡi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.roˈlo.ʝi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.roˈlo.ʝi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.roˈlo.ʝi.on/

Noun

ὡρολόγιον • (hōrológion) n (genitive ὡρολογίου); second declension

1. (Koine) mechanism for telling the time, clock
2. (Byzantine) Byzantine book of hours, a liturgical book containing the text of the daily Liturgy of the Hours of prayer as practiced in Christian churches observing the Byzantine liturgy

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ὡρολόγιον; τοῦ ὡρολογίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὡρολόγιον tò hōrológion	τὼ ὡρολογίω tṑ hōrologíō	τᾰ̀ ὡρολόγιᾰ tằ hōrológiă
Genitive	τοῦ ὡρολογίου toû hōrologíou	τοῖν ὡρολογίοιν toîn hōrologíoin	τῶν ὡρολογίων tôn hōrologíōn
Dative	τῷ ὡρολογίῳ tōî hōrologíōi	τοῖν ὡρολογίοιν toîn hōrologíoin	τοῖς ὡρολογίοις toîs hōrologíois
Accusative	τὸ ὡρολόγιον tò hōrológion	τὼ ὡρολογίω tṑ hōrologíō	τᾰ̀ ὡρολόγιᾰ tằ hōrológiă
Vocative	ὡρολόγιον hōrológion	ὡρολογίω hōrologíō	ὡρολόγιᾰ hōrológiă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὡρολογῐκός (hōrologĭkós)

Descendants

• Greek: ρολόι (rolói)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: reloj
• Hebrew: אוֹרְלוֹגִין (orlogin)
• Latin: hōrologium (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ὡρολόγιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὡρολόγιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette