Julian calendar

English

Etymology

Named after Julius Caesar who introduced the calendar in 46 BCE.

Proper noun

the Julian calendar

1. The calendar which was used in the western world before the present-day Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar differed in having all multiple-of-4 years as leap years.

   Hypernym: calendar

   Hyponym: proleptic Julian calendar

   • 2025 November 12, Vitali Vitaliev, “Time travelling”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 68:

     That brings back memories of my visit to the remote Scottish island of Foula. The most westerly of the Shetlands, it still officially adheres to the Julian calendar, which is 13 days behind our habitual Gregorian one. These days, the islanders only use the former for Christmas and New Year celebrations, when all 38 of them gather in one house on January 7 and 14 (in lieu of December 25 and January 1).

Translations

calendar

• Arabic: التقويم الشرقي m (at-taqwīm aš-šarqī)
• Bulgarian: юлиа́нски календа́р (juliánski kalendár)
• Catalan: calendari julià m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 儒略曆 / 儒略历 (jyu⁴ loek⁶ lik⁶), 朱利安曆 / 朱利安历 (zyu¹ lei⁵ on¹ lik⁶)

  Mandarin: 儒略曆 / 儒略历 (zh) (Rúlüèlì), 朱理安曆 / 朱理安历 (Zhūlǐ'ānlì), 朱利安曆 / 朱利安历 (Zhūlì'ānlì)

• Czech: juliánský kalendář m
• Finnish: juliaaninen kalenteri
• French: calendrier julien (fr) m
• Galician: calendario Xuliano m, calendario xuliano (gl) m
• German: Julianischer Kalender m
• Greek: Ιουλιανό ημερολόγιο n (Ioulianó imerológio)
• Hungarian: julián naptár
• Irish: féilire Iúil m
• Macedonian: јулија́нски ка́лендар m (julijánski kálendar)
• Polish: kalendarz juliański (pl) m
• Portuguese: Calendário Juliano m
• Romanian: calendar iulian (ro) n
• Russian: Юлиа́нский календа́рь m (Juliánskij kalendárʹ)
• Spanish: calendario juliano (es) m
• Swedish: julianska kalendern (sv) c, gamla stilen c
• Turkish: Jülyen takvimi
• Ukrainian: юліа́нський календа́р (uk) m (juliánsʹkyj kalendár)
• Vietnamese: lịch Juliêng, lịch Julius
• Welsh: calendr Iwlaidd m