nundines

English

Etymology

As a synonym of nundine for a single market day, a calque of Latin nundinae (“ninth-days”), maintaining the Latin practice of treating most recurring calendrical days as plurals.[1][2]

Noun

nundines

  1. plural of nundine
  2. Alternative form of nundine.

References
  1. Kennedy, Benjamin Hall, The Public School Latin Grammar (1879), p. 126.
  2. Michels, Agnes Kirsopp, Calendar of the Roman Republic (2015), p. 19.

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