directorium

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English

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Etymology

From Latin dīrēctōrium (literally “guide”). Doublet of directory.

Noun

directorium (plural directoria)

  1. (Christianity, historical) In the later Middle Ages, a Catholic liturgical guide for praying the Divine Office and Holy Mass.

Latin

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Etymology

From dīrigō (“direct to a place, guide, steer”) +‎ -tōrium.

Pronunciation

Noun

dīrēctōrium n (genitive dīrēctōriī or dīrēctōrī); second declension

  1. transport route
  2. guide

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative dīrēctōrium dīrēctōria
genitive dīrēctōriī
dīrēctōrī1 		dīrēctōriōrum
dative dīrēctōriō dīrēctōriīs
accusative dīrēctōrium dīrēctōria
ablative dīrēctōriō dīrēctōriīs
vocative dīrēctōrium dīrēctōria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References

  • directorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Souter, Alexander (1949) “directorium”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 106
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