Translation
month
Examples
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The month was long.
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He stayed for three months.
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In that month the king died.
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After six months he returns.
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On the first day of the month they performed the rites.
Mensis, mensis is masculine, third declension, with genitive plural mensium (an older mensum survives in a few phrases). The root is the same as the moon and as English month and measure: a month is what the moon measures out.
The Roman year originally began in March, which is why the last four month names are two adrift from their numbers, September being the seventh month and December the tenth. Names of months are adjectives agreeing with mensis, so mense Ianuario is "in the month of January" with both words in the ablative. Do not confuse mensis with mensa, "table", which is unrelated, or with mensus, the participle of metior. Italian mese, Spanish mes, French mois all descend from it.
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