nundines
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]As a synonym of nundine for a single market day, a calque of Latin nundinae (“ninth-days”), maintaining the Latin practice of treating most recurring calendrical days as plurals.[1][2]
Noun
[edit]nundines
References
[edit]- ^ Kennedy, Benjamin Hall, The Public School Latin Grammar (1879), p. 126.
- ^ Michels, Agnes Kirsopp, Calendar of the Roman Republic (2015), p. 19.