Horologium
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English
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.
Proper noun
Horologium
- (historical) Synonym of Tower of the Winds, a monument in ancient Athens that included a clepsydra and multiple prominent sundials.
- (historical) Synonym of Solarium, a monument in ancient Rome whose obelisk was once believed to have acted as a sundial gnomon.
- (astronomy) A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a pendulum clock. It lies between the constellations Fornax and Dorado.
- (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of horologium, the book of hours in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.
Derived terms
Translations
constellation
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Spanish
Etymology
From New Latin Horologium.
Proper noun
Horologium ?
- (astronomy) Horologium (constellation)