Definition of "menologium" in English

noun

1. A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and

   • The elder Pliny advises the sowing of certain crops between the Saturnalia (fixed at 17 December) and the Compitalia, which the roughly contemporary menologia indefinitely set in January.
   • The Roman farming menologia show the astrological information and religious festivals for each month along with their matching agricultural activities.

2. (historical) Synonym of menologem, a stylized date acting as a signature on some documents of the Byzantine Empire.