English

Proper noun

Angelus

1. A male given name, a rare variant of Angelo.

Noun

Angelus ‎(plural Angeluses)

1. A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation (from its incipit, "Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariæ": "the Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary").
2. The bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service.
   • 1879, James Albert Harrison, Spain in Profile: A Summer Among the Olives and Aloes, page

     […] and having eternal aves and angeluses rung in their ears;

   • 1998, Ciaran Carson, Last Night's Fun: A Book About Irish Traditional Music, page 151

     The yodel in it brought to mind incongruous images, full of holes as a Swiss cheese: among the alpenhorns and cuckoo clocks, cowbells clunked and donged like angeluses gone awry.

Alternative forms

• angelus

Translations

Latin

Proper noun

Angelus m ‎(genitive Angelī); second declension

1. A male given name equivalent to Angelo.

Inflection

Second declension.

French

Noun

angelus m ‎(plural angelus)

1. Alternative spelling of angélus

Anagrams

• engluas, langues

Latin

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος ‎(ángelos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.ɡe.lus/, [ˈaŋ.ɡɛ.ɫʊs]

Noun

angelus m ‎(genitive angelī); second declension

1. angel

Declension

Second declension.

Related terms

• angelicus m
• angelic

Descendants

References

• angelus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ANGELUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “angelus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑnɡʲɛlʊs]

Noun

angelus m

1. accusative plural of angelas