calendrical

English

WOTD – 13 December 2012, 13 December 2014

Etymology

calendar +‎ -ical

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlɛndɹɪkl̩/

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Adjective

calendrical (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 95:

     At that point, humanity crosses another threshold, miniaturizes its universe into symbolic form, and takes a toddling step toward iconography, writing, and the first stammerings of calendrical notation and mathematics.

   • 2009, Fred S. Kleine, Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History‎^[1], Thomson Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 371:

     Although other ancient Mesoamerican societies, even in the Preclassic period, also possessed calendars, only the Maya calendar can be translated directly into today's calendrical system.

   • 2011, Elisheva Carlebach, Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe, Belknap Press, →ISBN, page 47:

     This growing focus on calendrical matters in early modern Europe paralleled, and in some measure directly influenced, a renewed interest among Jews in their own calendar.

   • 2011, Erik Harms, Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 101:

     In Vietnam, the calendrical system of "heavenly stems and earthly branches" sounds quite mystical and foreign, but this lunar calendar can in fact be translated quite simply into a Western calendar year with a formula and a chart.

Synonyms

• (of, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system): calendric

Related terms

• calendrically

Translations

of, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system

• Catalan: calendàric (ca)
• Danish: kalendermæssig
• Finnish: kalenteri- (fi), ajanlasku-, ajanlaskun (fi)
• French: calendaire (fr)
• German: kalendarisch (de)
• Greek: ημερολογιακός (el) (imerologiakós)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kalendarisk m or f or n

  Nynorsk: kalendarisk m or f or n

• Russian: календа́рный (ru) (kalendárnyj)
• Spanish: calendárico
• Swedish: kalendarisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: календа́рний (uk) (kalendárnyj)