Menologium

Meanings

1. Alternative letter-case form of menologium, particularly in reference to (Eastern Orthodoxy) specific editions of the menaia or synaxaria or (Roman Catholicism) biographical records of members of religious orders.

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
2. Synonym of menaion, a book detailing the propers and hagiographic canons for the fixed dates of the liturgical year.
3. 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. 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. Synonym of martyrology, a hagiography of Catholic saints.
7. Synonym of menologem, a stylized date acting as a signature on some documents of the Byzantine Empire.

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.

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