gallicinium

• gallecinium

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡal.liˈki.ni.um/, [ɡal.lɪˈkɪ.ni.ũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡal.liˈt͡ʃi.ni.um/, [ɡal.liˈt͡ʃiː.ni.um]

gallicinium n (genitive galliciniī); second declension

1. The period of the early morning when roosters begin to crow.

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

Second declension.

• nox

• 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.