What does horologe mean?
Definitions for horologe
ˈhɔr əˌloʊdʒ, -ˌlɒdʒ, ˈhɒr-horologe
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Princeton's WordNet
timepiece, timekeeper, horologenoun
a measuring instrument or device for keeping time
Wiktionary
horologenoun
A clock or watch.
Etymology: From horologium, "sundial" or "clock".
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Horologe, Horologynoun
Any instrument that tells the hour: as a clock; a watch; an hourglass.
Etymology: horologium, Latin.
’Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep;
He’ll watch the horologue a double set,
If drink rock not his cradle. William Shakespeare, Othello.Before the days of Jerome there were horologies, that measured the hours not only by drops of water in glasses, called clepsydra, but also by sand in glasses, called clepsammia. Brown.
Webster Dictionary
Horologenoun
a servant who called out the hours
Horologenoun
an instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial
Etymology: [OE. horologe, orloge, timepiece, OF. horloge, orloge, oriloge, F. horloge, L. horologium, fr. Gr. ; hour + to say, tell. See Hour, and Logic.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Horologe
hor′o-lōj, n. any instrument for telling the hours.—ns. Horol′oger, Horologiog′rapher, Horol′ogist, a maker of clocks, &c.—adjs. Horolog′ic, -al.—ns. Horologiog′raphy, the art of constructing timepieces; Horol′ogy, the science which treats of the construction of machines for telling the hours: the office-book of the Greek Church for the canonical hours. [O. Fr. horologe (Fr. horloge)—L. horologium—Gr. hōrologion—hōra, an hour, legein, to tell.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of horologe in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of horologe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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