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English
Etymology
From Latin tintinnābulum (“a small monastic bell”).
Noun
tintinnabulum (plural tintinnabula)
- A small clinking bell, particularly (historical) a small bell used to call monks to certain tasks.
- 1878, Hugh Reginald Haweis, "Bell", Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th edition, Volume III, pages 536–7:
- ...it is worth while to enumerate the different kinds of bells named by Hieronymus Magius in his work De Tintinnabulis:—1. Tintinnabulum, a little bell, otherwise called tinniolum, for refectory or dormitory, according to Belethus, but Durandus names squilla for the refectory...
- A set of bells or metal plates used as a musical instrument or as a toy.
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Latin
Etymology
From tintinn(ā) (“to ring; to tinkle”) + -bulum (suffix forming instruments).
Pronunciation
Noun
tintinnābulum n (genitive tintinnābulī); second declension
- a bell, specifically a tintinnabulum.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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References
- “tintinnabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tintinnabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tintinnabulum 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)
- tintinnabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tintinnabulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tintinnabulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin