gallicinium

• gallecinium

From gallus (“rooster”) +‎ canō (“sing”) +‎ -ium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡal.lɪˈkɪ.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ɡal.liˈt͡ʃiː.ni.um]

gallicinium n (genitive galliciniī); second declension

1. (Classical Latin, Late Latin) cockcrow (the time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light)
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon:

     "Apoculamus nos circa gallicinia..."

     "We set out around cockcrow..."

   Synonym: gallī cantus

• In Bede et al., a particular period of night following intempestum (“midnight”) and before the first light of dawn.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• nox

• gallī cantus

• Italian: gallicinio

• “gallicinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gallicinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "Anglo-Saxon Manual of Astronomy", p. 6, in Popular Treatises on Science Written during the Middle Ages (1841), London: Historical Society of Science.