Translation
January
Word origin
From Latin Ianuarius, the month of Janus, the god of doorways and beginnings, whose name comes from ianua, a door. The two-faced god looking backwards and forwards is the reason the year turns where it does.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- Ianuarius
- English cognates
- January, janitor
Examples
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In January the days are short and cold.
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January is the first month of the year.
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Snow covered the fields throughout January.
The ninth month to get a page here, which says something about how a frequency-ordered course works. The months arrive in the order the corpus uses them, not in calendar order, so marto landed first at rank 1137 and majo, julio, junio, aŭgusto, oktobro, aprilo and februaro followed before January did. September lands elsewhere in this same chapter, and November and December are still outstanding.
Two conventions to note. First, month names in Esperanto are common nouns and take a small letter: , not , unlike English. Second, dates run 3-a , the third of January, with and no preposition fuss - the month is the possessor of the day.
is in January. Januara is the adjective, as in januara . The whole set is borrowed straight from Latin and needs no decoding, which makes the months one of the cheapest blocks of vocabulary in the language: learn the twelve and you have them in Spanish, French and Italian as a bonus.
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