December
See also: december
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English December, Decembre, from Old French decembre, from Latin december (“tenth month”), from Latin decem (“ten”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; December was the tenth month in the Roman calendar.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈsɛmbə/
- (US) enPR: dĭ-sĕmʹbər, IPA(key): /dɪˈsɛm.bəɹ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ)
Proper noun edit
December (plural Decembers)
- The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.
- Synonym: (rare) Yulemonth
- a. 1633 (date written), Thomas Dekker, The Wonder of a Kingdome, London: […] Robert Raworth for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1636, →OCLC, Act I, signature [A3], recto:
- Old Oakes doe not eaſily fall: / Decembers cold hand combes my head and beard, / But May ſvvimmes in my blood; and he that vvalkes / VVithout his vvooden third legge, is never old.
- (rare) A female given name from English.
- 2017, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Personal Stereo, →ISBN, page 45:
- But others were less than thrilled with this new gizmo, particularly its addictive qualities. There were reports of breakups threatened and consummated over it. “Our marriage or your Sony,” one woman told her husband, who duly sold the Walkman to a bachelor friend. A young woman named December Cole, a sales executive at a beauty magazine, recalled a trip to Atlantic City with "a basically rude" man who wouldn't stop "bopping around to his own music."
- A surname.
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Descendants edit
- Bislama: desemba
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Disemba
- Tok Pisin: Desemba
- → Bengali: ডিসেম্বর (ḍiśembor)
- → Burmese: ဒီဇင်ဘာ (dijangbha)
- → Chichewa: Disembala
- → Dari: دسمبر (desembar)
- → Dhivehi: ޑިސެމްބަރު (ḍisem̊baru)
- → Hausa: Disamba
- → Hawaiian: Kēkēmapa
- → Hindi: दिसंबर (disambar)
- → Malay: Disember
- → Maori: Tīhema
- → Marathi: डिसेंबर (ḍisembar)
- → Swahili: Desemba, Disemba
- → Tokelauan: Tēhema
Translations edit
twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar
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Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, December is the 97210th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 187 individuals. December is most common among White (57.22%) and Black/African American (32.09%) individuals.
See also edit
- Undecimber
- (Gregorian calendar months) Gregorian calendar month; January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December (Category: en:Gregorian calendar months)
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “December”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 422.
- Forebears
Anagrams edit
Old English edit
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Proper noun edit
December m
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References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “December”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Latin december (“of the tenth month”).
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Proper noun edit
December