itinerarium

[ ahy-tin-uh-rair-ee-uhm, ih-tin- ]

noun

, Roman Catholic Church.

, plural i·tin·er·ar·i·a [ahy-tin-, uh, -, uh, -, rair, -ee-, uh, ih-tin-], i·tin·er·ar·i·ums.

1. a prayer in the breviary, used by a priest about to begin a journey.

Word History and Origins

Origin of itinerarium¹

1700–10; < Medieval Latin itinerārium; itinerary

Example Sentences

“I’m setting down the stories of the Regiment in my Itinerarium,” I said.

From Literature

It was to Mount Alvernia, where his master, St. Francis, so lately received the stigmata, that St. Bonaventure retired to write the Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum, in which he treats on the divine nature, and considers God as manifesting himself in three modes, and man as receiving the knowledge of him by the three functions of memory, understanding, and will.

From Project Gutenberg

A journey through Wales was followed by a translation of the Itinerarium Cambriae and of the Descriptio Cambriae of Giraldus Cambrensis, Hoare adding notes and a life of Giraldus to the translation.

From Project Gutenberg

Giraldus declares that the mission was highly successful; in any case it gave him the material for his Itinerarium Cambrense, which is, after the Expugnatio, his best known work.

From Project Gutenberg

V. Itinerarium Septentrionale; or a Journey thro' most of the Counties of Scotland, and those in the North of England.

From Project Gutenberg