kalendae
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *kalēō, gerundive formation from Proto-Indo-European root *kelh₁- (“to call, summon”), referring to "the day which are called out"; compare calō.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kaˈlen.dae̯/, [käˈɫ̪ɛn̪d̪äe̯]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈlen.de/, [käˈlɛn̪d̪e]
Noun
editkalendae f pl (genitive kalendārum); first declension
- (Ancient Rome) the calends, the first day of the month
Declension
editFirst-declension noun, plural only.
Case | Plural |
---|---|
Nominative | kalendae |
Genitive | kalendārum |
Dative | kalendīs |
Accusative | kalendās |
Ablative | kalendīs |
Vocative | kalendae |
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Asturian: calienda
- Catalan: calenda
- Emilian: calaind
- Istriot: calenbre
- Italian: calende, calenne (Rieti)
- Franco-Provençal: Chalendes
- Ligurian: caende
- Lombard: carent, calendre
- Neapolitan: calenne (Old Abruzzese) ⇒ calantrella (“hot summer afternoon”)
- Old Occitan: calendas
- Occitan: Calenda (“christmas”)
- Old Galician-Portuguese: caenda
- Galician: quenda
- Piedmontese: calent
- Romansch: chalanda, calondas
- Sicilian: calanna, calenna ⇒ carènnula (“ides of December”)
Early borrowings:
- Celtic:
- → Ancient Greek: καλάνδαι (kalándai)
- → Byzantine Greek: κάλανδα (kálanda)
- → Old French: calendes
- French: calendes
- → Proto-Slavic: *kolęda (see there for further descendants)
Late borrowings:
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “calendae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 82
Further reading
edit- kalendae in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “calendae”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 81
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “calendae”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 115
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- la:Ancient Rome
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