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See also: October
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
october m (plural octobers, diminutive octobertje n)
Usage notes[edit]
- The spelling october was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
By analogy with september, as if from a suffix -ber. In the Roman calendar, the year began with mārtius (“March”), and octōber was the eighth month of the year.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /okˈtoː.ber/, [ɔkˈt̪oːbɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /okˈto.ber/, [okˈt̪ɔːber]
Adjective[edit]
octōber (feminine octōbris, neuter octōbre); third-declension three-termination adjective
- of October
- 1st century CE — Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella, De Re Rustica, Book XII
- Cum eius radicem mense octobri, quo[d] maxime matura est.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1st century CE — Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella, De Re Rustica, Book XII
Declension[edit]
Third-declension three-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | octōber | octōbris | octōbre | octōbrēs | octōbria | ||
| Genitive | octōbris | octōbrium | |||||
| Dative | octōbrī | octōbribus | |||||
| Accusative | octōbrem | octōbre | octōbrēs | octōbria | |||
| Ablative | octōbrī | octōbribus | |||||
| Vocative | octōber | octōbris | octōbre | octōbrēs | octōbria | ||
Noun[edit]
octōber m (genitive octōbris); third declension
- October
- 1283 — Tomazina de Savere, published in Josip Lučić (1984) Spisi Dubrovačke Kancelarije, Knjiga II, page 293.
- Die tercio octubris — on the third day of October
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1283 — Tomazina de Savere, published in Josip Lučić (1984) Spisi Dubrovačke Kancelarije, Knjiga II, page 293.
Descendants[edit]
- Borrowings
- → Ancient Greek: Ὀκτώβριος (Oktṓbrios), Ὀκτώμβριος (Oktṓmbrios)
- → Middle High German: octōber
- Romance
- → Albanian: tetor (calque)
- → Cimbrian: achte maanont (calque)
- Unsorted borrowings
These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.
- Africa
- Americas
- Asia and Oceania
- Central and Western Asia
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Europe
- Hungarian: október
- Baltic
- Germanic
- Slavic
See also[edit]
Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References[edit]
- “october”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Romansch[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin october (“of October”).
Proper noun[edit]
october m
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