calendとは 意味・読み方・使い方

アナグラム

• Declan, candle, lanced

語源

From Latin kalendās, accusative plural of kalendae (“first day of a Roman month”), an archaic variant of calandae, from calandus (“which is to be called or announced solemnly”), the future passive participle of calō (“to call, announce solemnly”) (referring to the Roman practice of proclaiming the first days of the lunar month upon seeing the first signs of a new crescent moon), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈkɑ.lend/

名詞

calend m

1. Calends (“the first day of a month, particularly the first day of a month of the Roman calendar”)
   • 10th century, Byrhtferth, chapter II, in Enchiridion (Ashmolean MS 328), book I, section 22:

     Þa monðas þe habbað iiii nonas æfter kalendas [...] habbað to idus xiii dagas and to ii kalendas eahtatyne.

     Those months that have four nones after the kalends [...] have 13 days to the ides and 18 to the second kalends.

2. a month

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