horarium

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hōrārium.

Noun

horarium (plural horariums)

  1. (Catholicism) The daily schedule of a religious house or seminary.
    • 2020, Carmen M. Mangion, Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age:
      Pre-conciliar changes to the horarium or any entrenched practices were often small in scope...

Latin

Etymology

hōra +‎ -ārium

Pronunciation

Noun

hōrārium n (genitive hōrāriī or hōrārī); second declension

  1. (Late Latin) dial, clock

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative hōrārium hōrāria
genitive hōrāriī
hōrārī1 		hōrāriōrum
dative hōrāriō hōrāriīs
accusative hōrārium hōrāria
ablative hōrāriō hōrāriīs
vocative hōrārium hōrāria

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

Descendants

  • Italian: orario
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *hōrāriolum

References

  • “horarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • horarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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