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Definition of Nundinal

Nundinal
Nundinal Nun"di*nal, n. A nundinal letter.
Nundinal
Nundinal Nun"di*nal, Nundinary Nun"di*na*ry, a. [L. nundinalis, nundinarius, fr. nundinae the market day, the weekly market, prop., the ninth day, fr. nundinus belonging to nine days; novem nine + dies day: cf. F. nundinal.] Of or pertaining to a fair, or to a market day. Nundinal letter, among the Romans, one of the first eight letters of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year. One of these always expressed the market day, which returned every nine days (every eight days by our reckoning).

Meaning of Nundinal from wikipedia

- certain period, rest from work for the ruling class (patricians). The nundinal cycle, market w****, or 8-day w**** (Latin: nundinum or internundinum) was...
- before the next year. These months each had 30 or 31 days and ran for 38 nundinal cycles, each forming a kind of eight-day w****—nine days counted inclusively...
- Greswell, Edward (1854). Origines kalendariæ italicæ: nundinal calendars of ancient Italy, nundinal calendar of Romulus, calendar of Numa Pompilius, calendar...
- period, it did not immediately replace the older eight-day nundinal system. The nundinal system had probably fallen out of use by the time Emperor Constantine...
- denoted as day zero. The ancient Romans traditionally used the eight-day nundinal cycle, a market w****, but in the time of Augustus in the 1st century AD...
- 8-day nundinal cycle began to be displaced by the 7-day w**** in the first century AD, and dominical letters began to appear alongside nundinal letters...
- calendar reforms undertaken by Marcus Aurelius. Days were also marked with nundinal letters in cycles of A B C D E F G H, to mark the "market w****". December...
- feasts were probably universal before the adoption of the lunar-based nundinal cycle, the earliest Italian calendars most likely being observational and...
- used in Latin (just as the ninth day was a return to the same day of a nundinal cycle, the eight-day w**** of the pre-Christian Roman calendar). The "eighth...
- centuries AD, the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight-day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day w****. The astrological order of the days was explained...