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calends
or kal·ends
[ kal-uhndz ]
noun
, (usually used with a plural verb)
- the first day of the month in the ancient Roman calendar, from which the days of the preceding month were counted backward to the ides.
calends
/ ˈkælɪndz /
plural noun
- the first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar
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Word History and Origins
Origin of calends1
1325–75; Middle English kalendes, alteration (with native plural suffix) of Latin kalendae, perhaps equivalent to cal- (base of calāre to proclaim) + -end- formative suffix (perhaps for *-and- ) + -ae plural ending
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Word History and Origins
Origin of calends1
C14: from Latin kalendae; related to Latin calāre to proclaim
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Example Sentences
The first day of each month was invariably called the Calends.
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The phrase used here, “the sixth day after the calends, corresponds identically to no Latin form of speech.”
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He remarks of “the marigolde” that it is called Calendula “as it is to be seene to flower in the calends of almost euerie moneth.”
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Pliny tells us that it was called bruma; and, like Servius, places it on the 8th of the calends of January.
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Their regular meetings were held on three stated days in every month, the Calends, the Nones, and the Ides.
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