astrolabium

From Ancient Greek ἀστρολάβος (astrolábos), either via Byzantine Greek ἀστρολάβιον (astrolábion) or from addition in Latin of the ending -ium.

astrolabium n (genitive astrolabiī or astrolabī); second declension

1. astrolabe

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• "astrolabium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Learned borrowing from Latin astrolabium, from Ancient Greek ἀστρολάβος (astrolábos).

• IPA^(key): /as.trɔˈla.bjum/

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• Rhymes: -abjum
• Syllabification: as‧tro‧la‧bium

astrolabium n

1. astrolabe

• astrolabium in Polish dictionaries at PWN