Definition of MENOLOGIUM

menologium

Meanings

Plural: menologia, menologiums

Noun

  • A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
  • Synonym of menaion, a book detailing the propers and hagiographic canons for the fixed dates of the liturgical year.
  • A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
  • Synonym of synaxarium, a hagiography covering similar material equivalent to a Catholic martyrology.
  • A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
  • Synonym of kalendar, any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings.
  • A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
  • A work providing biographies of uncanonized members of a religious order in similar style to a martyrology, frequently read within the order but forbidden for use with the liturgy itself.
  • A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
  • Synonym of martyrology, a hagiography of Catholic saints.
  • A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
  • Synonym of menologem, a stylized date acting as a signature on some documents of the Byzantine Empire.

Origin / Etymology

From Medieval Latin mēnologium, from Ancient and Byzantine Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion), from μήν (mḗn, “month”) + λόγιον (lógion, “writing, record, announcement”), itself from λόγος (lógos, “writing, recording”). Doublet of menologion, menologe, and menology.

Synonyms

any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings, kalendar, martyrology, menaion, menologe, menologem, menologion, menology, synaxarium

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