tintinnabulum

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Noun

tintinnabulum (plural tintinnabula)

1. A small clinking bell, particularly (historical) a small bells used to call monks to the 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...

2. A set of bells or metal plates used as a musical instrument or as a toy.

Synonyms

• tinniolum

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