quintilis

See also: Quintilis

Latin

Alternative forms

• quint., Quint. (abbreviation)
• quinctilis, Quinctilis, Quintilis

Etymology

quīntus (“fifth”) +‎ -īlis +‎ (mēnsis), literally “fifth (month)”, due to its position in the Roman calendar prior to the establishment of iānuārius (“January”) as the first month.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʷiːnˈtiː.lis/, [kʷiːn̪ˈt̪iːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwinˈti.lis/, [kwin̪ˈt̪iːlis]

Proper noun

quīntīlis m (genitive quīntīlis); third declension

1. Alternative letter-case form of Quīntīlis (“Quintilis, the Roman month following June; renamed July in 44 BC”)

   nōnae quīntīlēs ― the nones of July

   īdibus quīntīlibus ― on the ides of July

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	quīntīlis	quīntīlēs
Genitive	quīntīlis	quīntīlium
Dative	quīntīlī	quīntīlibus
Accusative	quīntīlem	quīntīlēs quīntīlīs
Ablative	quīntīle	quīntīlibus
Vocative	quīntīlis	quīntīlēs

Synonyms

• Iūlius, iūlius
• Jūlius, jūlius

See also

• Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “quintilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quintilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1302/3.
• quintilis in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2171