Meaning

7 senses
  1. 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

    The Roman farming menologia show the astrological information and religious festivals for each month along with their matching agricultural activities.

  2. 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

    (capitalized, often)Synonym of menaion, a book detailing the propers and hagiographic canons for the fixed dates of the liturgical year.

  3. (capitalized, often)Synonym of synaxarium, a hagiography covering similar material equivalent to a Catholic martyrology.

  4. Synonym of kalendar, any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings.

  5. (capitalized, often)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.

  6. (capitalized, often, uncommon)Synonym of martyrology, a hagiography of Catholic saints.

  7. (historical)Synonym of menologem, a stylized date acting as a signature on some documents of the Byzantine Empire.

Translations

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By meaning 1
a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts:

Origin

From Medieval Latin mēnologium, from Ancient and Byzantine Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion),

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.

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Forms

plural: menologiums / menologia

Synonyms

9 synonyms
menaionkalendarmartyrologymenologemmenologionmenologymenologesynaxariumany monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings

Word family

2 related words
Relatedhorologium

See also

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