gallicinium

• gallecinium

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡal.liˈki.ni.um/, [ɡälːʲɪˈkɪniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡal.liˈt͡ʃi.ni.um/, [ɡälːiˈt͡ʃiːnium]

gallicinium n (genitive galliciniī or gallicinī); second declension

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

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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• 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.