horologium
/hɔɹəˈloʊd͡ʒiəm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
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Synonym of Tower of the Winds, a monument in ancient Athens that included a clepsydra and multiple prominent sundials.
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Synonym of Solarium, a monument in ancient Rome whose obelisk was once believed to have acted as a sundial gnomon.
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A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a pendulum clock. It lies between the constellations Fornax and Dorado.
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Alternative letter-case form of horologium, the book of hours in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.
noun
noun
Synonym of horologion, the book of hours in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism.
Etymology
See horologium. As a location in Rome, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Augustī (“Sundial of Augustus”). As a constellation, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Oscillitorium (“Pendulum Clock”), coined in 1763 by the French astronomer De Lacaille to honor the Dutch astronomer and mathematician Christian Huygens, who had written a major work by that name.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Hōrologium, Hōrologium Oscillitorium, horologium, ὡρολόγιον, -
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hɔɹəˈloʊd͡ʒiəm/
- British English: /hɒɹəˈləʊd͡ʒɪəm/
Usage
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Derived Forms
Horologii
horologiography