tintinnabulum

== English == === Etymology === From Latin tintinnābulum (“a small monastic bell”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌtɪntɪˈnæbjʊləm/ Hyphenation: tin‧tin‧a‧bu‧lum === Noun === tintinnabulum (plural tintinnabula) A small clinking bell, particularly (historical) a small bell used to call monks to certain tasks. 1878, Hugh Reginald Haweis, "Bell", Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th edition, Volume III, pages 536–7: ...it is worth while to enumerate the different kinds of bells named by Hieronymus Magius in his work De Tintinnabulis:—1. Tintinnabulum, a little bell, otherwise called tinniolum, for refectory or dormitory, according to Belethus, but Durandus names squilla for the refectory... A set of bells or metal plates used as a musical instrument or as a toy. ==== Synonyms ==== tinniolum ==== Related terms ==== ==== See also ==== chime == Latin == === Etymology === From tintinn(ā) (“to ring; to tinkle”) +‎ -bulum (suffix forming instruments). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɪn.tɪnˈnaː.bʊ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tin.tinˈnaː.bu.lum] === Noun === tintinnābulum n (genitive tintinnābulī); second declension a bell, specifically a tintinnabulum. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Synonyms ==== tinniolum ==== Derived terms ==== tintinnābulātus ==== Related terms ==== tintinnāculus tintinnō tintinnum ==== Descendants ==== English: tintinnabulum Portuguese: tintinábulo French: tintinnabuler === References === “tintinnabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tintinnabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "tintinnabulum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “tintinnabulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “tintinnabulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “tintinnabulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin