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