Angelus

• (given name): From Latin Angelus and its etymon Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “angel”).
• (common noun): From the first word (angelus) of its Latin incipit, "Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariæ": "the Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary".

Doublet of angel.

Angelus

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Angelo.

Angelus (plural Angeluses)

1. A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation.
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:

     […] 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.

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Angelus

1. a male given name

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Angelus m (genitive Angelī); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Angelo

Second-declension noun.

• Italian: Angelo
• Sicilian: Àncilu
• Spanish: Ángel