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Angelus
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English
Etymology
Proper noun
Angelus
- A male given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Angelo.
Translations
male given name
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Noun
Angelus (plural Angeluses)
- A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation.
- The bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service.
- 1879, James Albert Harrison, Spain in Profile: A Summer Among the Olives and Aloes:
- […] and having eternal aves and angeluses rung in their ears;
- 1998, Ciaran Carson, Last Night's Fun: A Book About Irish Traditional Music, page 151:
- The yodel in it brought to mind incongruous images, full of holes as a Swiss cheese: among the alpenhorns and cuckoo clocks, cowbells clunked and donged like angeluses gone awry.
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Translations
Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation
bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service
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Proper noun
Angelus
- a male given name
- 2014 December 2, Ugdol, Jojo, “Naghikog Tungod sa P10”, in Banat News:
- Ang naghikog naila nga si Exequiel Angelus Nudalo, mamintalay og sakyanan ug nagpuyo sa maong lugar. Matud pa ni Police Officer 2 Ederlino Bacusmo, ang imbestigador sa Sibonga Police Station nga nahinabi sa Banat News migamit og electrical cord si Nudalo nga gihikot niini sa iyang liog ngadto sa sanga sa sinigwelas aron sa paghikog.
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Latin
Proper noun
Angelus m (genitive Angelī); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Angelo
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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