Translation
February
Word origin
From Latin Februarius, named after the februa, the Roman rites of purification held in the last month of their old year. The root februum meant a means of cleansing. The month was an afterthought in the Roman calendar, tacked on at the end, which is why it is the one that gets shortened.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- Februarius
- English cognates
- February, febrifuge
Examples
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We will meet in February.
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Last February I travelled to the sea.
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February has twenty-eight days, and in some years twenty-nine.
That makes eight of the twelve months on the site: marto, aprilo, majo, junio, julio, aŭgusto and oktobro already have pages, and joins them. Every one ends in -o and every one is written with a small letter - Esperanto capitalises far less than English, and month names are ordinary common nouns here. They are also completely regular: no February versus Feb, no silent first r to argue about.
is the odd one out on length: twenty-eight days, and twenty-nine in a leap year (superjaro, literally an "over-year"). For dates, the usual pattern is , the second of February. And for "during February" you have a choice: the preposition, , or the accusative of time with no preposition at all, - the -n alone says "at that time", which is one of the tidiest tricks in the language. More of that in time expressions.
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