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calends
[ kal-uhndz ]
noun
- 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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Origin of calends1
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Origin of calends1
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Example Sentences
The first day of each month was invariably called the Calends.
The phrase used here, “the sixth day after the calends, corresponds identically to no Latin form of speech.”
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.”
Pliny tells us that it was called bruma; and, like Servius, places it on the 8th of the calends of January.
Their regular meetings were held on three stated days in every month, the Calends, the Nones, and the Ides.
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