Etymology

From ὡρολόγος (hōrológos, “Egyptian astrologer”) +‎ -ιον (-ion)Category:Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ιον#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝ, the former from ὥρα (hṓra, “hour”) +‎ λέγω (légō, “to put in order”)Category:Ancient Greek compound terms#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝ + -ος (-os).

Pronunciation

Noun

ὡρολόγιον • (hōrológion) n (genitive ὡρολογίου)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝCategory:Ancient Greek nouns#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝCategory:Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝCategory:Ancient Greek neuter nouns#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝCategory:Ancient Greek second-declension nouns#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝCategory:Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝCategory:Ancient Greek neuter nouns#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝCategory:Pages with entries#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝ; second declension

1. (KoineCategory:Koine Greek#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝ) mechanism for telling the time, clock
2. (ByzantineCategory:Byzantine Greek#ΩΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝ) Byzantine book of hours, a liturgical book containing the text of the daily Liturgy of the Hours of prayer as practiced in Christian churches observing the Byzantine liturgy

Further reading

• “ὡρολόγιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὡρολόγιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὡρολόγιον in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎ (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• ὡρολόγιον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011