calend
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calend (plural calends)
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Etymology edit
From Latin kalendās, accusative plural of kalendae (“first day of a Roman month”),[1] an archaic variant of calandae, from calandus (“which is to be called or announced solemnly”), the future passive participle of calō (“to call, announce solemnly”) (referring to the Roman practice of proclaiming the first days of the lunar month upon seeing the first signs of a new crescent moon), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”).
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- Calends (“the first day of a month, particularly the first day of a month of the Roman calendar”)
- 10th century, Byrhtferth, chapter II, in Enchiridion (Ashmolean MS 328), book I, section 22:
- a month
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- ^ Compare “calends, kalends, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1888; “calends, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.