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Definition of kalends

Kalends
Kalends Kal"ends, n. Same as Calends.
kalends
Greek calends Greek calends or kalends kalends A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
kalends
Calends Cal"ends, n. pl. [OE. kalendes month, calends, AS. calend month, fr. L. calendae; akin to calare to call, proclaim, Gr. ??????. CF. Claim.] The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar. [Written also kalends.] The Greek calends, a time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.

Meaning of kalends from wikipedia

- 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...
- observational lunar one. In particular, the most important days of each month—its kalends, nones, and ides—seem to have derived from the new moon, the first-quarter...
- divinae, and thus the day was known as the Kalendae fabariae, the Bean-Kalends, since at this time the bean harvest matured. Beans had many magico-religious...
- quarto decimo Kalendarum Ianuariarum", on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of the pre-Julian, twenty-nine day December, on the oldest Roman religious...
- their years by these consulships, rather than sequentially, and making the kalends of January start the new year aligned this dating. Still, private and religious...
- Occupation(s) Chairman and CEO of Kalends Inc.[citation needed] CEO of Opay Chairman and CEO of Opera Software Known for Founder of Kalends Inc. and Beijing Kunlun...
- day (inclusive: i.e. what we would call the fifth day before) before the Kalends (first day) of March, i.e. what we would call 24 February) was doubled...
- The first day of the month was the Kalends (or Calends, from which the English word "calendar" derives). Each Kalends was sacred to Juno, and the Regina...
- Cervula or Cervulus was a Roman festival celebrated on the kalends of January (1 January). According to Chambers (1864), remnants seem to have been incorporated...
- arranged the months such that each month started on the ninth day before the kalends of the corresponding Roman month; thus the year began on 23 September,...