tintinnabulum

English

tintinnabulum (plural tintinnabula)

A small clinking bell, particularly (historical) a small bell used to call monks to certain tasks.
- 1878, Hugh Reginald Haweis, "Bell", Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th edition, Volume III, pages 536–7:
  ...it is worth while to enumerate the different kinds of bells named by Hieronymus Magius in his work De Tintinnabulis:—1. Tintinnabulum, a little bell, otherwise called tinniolum, for refectory or dormitory, according to Belethus, but Durandus names squilla for the refectory...
A set of bells or metal plates used as a musical instrument or as a toy.

From tintinn(ā) (“to ring; to tinkle”) +‎ -bulum (“forming instruments”).

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tin.tinˈnaː.bu.lum/, [t̪ɪn̪t̪ɪnˈnäːbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tin.tinˈna.bu.lum/, [t̪in̪t̪inˈnäːbulum]

tintinnābulum n (genitive tintinnābulī); second declension

“tintinnabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“tintinnabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
tintinnabulum 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)
tintinnabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“tintinnabulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“tintinnabulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin