Angelus

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See also: angelus, angélus, ángelus, and ângelus

English

Etymology

Proper noun

Angelus

  1. A male given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Angelo.

Noun

Angelus (plural Angeluses)

  1. A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation.
  2. 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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Proper noun

Angelus

  1. a male given name

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Latin

Proper noun

Angelus m (genitive Angelī); second declension

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Angelo

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Angelus Angelī
Genitive Angelī Angelōrum
Dative Angelō Angelīs
Accusative Angelum Angelōs
Ablative Angelō Angelīs
Vocative Angele Angelī

Descendants

  • Italian: Angelo
  • Sicilian: Àncilu
  • Spanish: Ángel
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