Dictionary

menologium en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌmɛnəˈloʊdʒiəm/

Etymology

From Medieval Latin mēnologium, from Ancient and Byzantine Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion), from μήν (mḗn, “month”) + λόγιον (lógion, “writing, record, announcement”), itself from λόγος (lógos, “writing, recording”). Doublet of menologion, menologe, and menology.

Meanings

1. A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
   • The Roman farming menologia show the astrological information and religious festivals for each month along with their matching agricultural activities.
   • The elder Pliny advises the sowing of certain crops between the Saturnalia (fixed at 17 December) and the Compitalia, which the roughly contemporary menologia indefinitely set in January. 1976, Robert E.A. Palmer, "A Poem of All Seasons", Phoenix, Vol. 30, No. 2, p. 169
2. (capitalized, often, qualifier:Eastern Orthodoxy) A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and ▸ Synonym of menaion, a book detailing the propers and hagiographic canons for the fixed dates of the liturgical year.
3. (capitalized, often, qualifier:Eastern Orthodoxy) A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and ▸ Synonym of synaxarium, a hagiography covering similar material equivalent to a Catholic martyrology.
4. (qualifier:Eastern Orthodoxy) A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and ▸ Synonym of kalendar, any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings.
5. (capitalized, often) A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and ▸ A work providing biographies of uncanonized members of a religious order in similar style to a martyrology, frequently read within the order but forbidden for use with the liturgy itself.
6. (capitalized, often, uncommon) A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and ▸ Synonym of martyrology, a hagiography of Catholic saints.
7. (historical) Synonym of menologem, a stylized date acting as a signature on some documents of the Byzantine Empire.

Forms

Deriveds

menological

Relateds

horologium

Synonyms

menologe · menologion · menaion · kalendar · menology · synaxarium · menologem · any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings · martyrology

Translations (10)

ru свя́тцы (a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts) · el μηναίο (a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts) · el μηνολόγιο (a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts) · la menologio (a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts) · ru месяцесло́в (a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts) · fr ménologe (a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts) · la menologium (a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts) · es menología (a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts) · grc μηνολόγιον (a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts) · it menologio (a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts)

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