- The
calends or
kalends (Latin:
kalendae) is the
first day of
every month in the
Roman calendar. The
English word "calendar" is
derived from this word....
-
usages of K and Q. K
survived only in a few
fossilized forms, such as
Kalendae, "the calends".
After Gr****
words were
taken into Latin, the
kappa was...
- her function. She is thus ****ociated to all
beginnings and hers are the
kalendae of
every month: at
Laurentum she was
known as
Kalendaris Iuno (Juno of...
-
leisure complex,
built in
ancient Rome and
dedicated under Trajan during the
kalendae of July 109,
shortly after the Aqua
Traiana was dedicated. Commissioned...
- The
letter ⟨K⟩ was used only rarely, in a
small number of
words such as
Kalendae,
often interchangeably with ⟨C⟩.
After the
Roman conquest of
Greece in...
- afterward,
which festival later developed into the
Roman Saturnalia and
Kalendae. When the
First Man saw that the day was
continuously shortening, he said...
-
month name is
construed as an
adjective modifying the
feminine plural Kalendae,
Nonae or Idūs. Scullard,
Festivals and Ceremonies, pp. 44–45. Michele...
-
length of the month), the Ides (Idūs, 13th or 15th), and the
Kalends (
Kalendae, 1st) of the
following month. Thus, the last day of
Quintilis was the pridie...
-
pluralia tantum refer to
points or
periods of time (for example,
Latin kalendae 'calends, the
first day of the month',
German Ferien 'vacation, holiday')...
- be
considered the
first two
months instead. The
January kalend (Latin:
Kalendae Ianuariae), the
start of the
month of January, came to be
celebrated as...
