october
See also: October
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Usage notes
- The spelling october was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.
Latin
Etymology
From octo (“eight”) + -ber from -bris, an adjectival suffix.
By analogy with september, as if octō (“eight”) : septem. In the Roman calendar, the year began with mārtius (“March”), and octōber was the eighth month of the year.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /okˈtoː.ber/, [ɔkˈtoː.bɛr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /okˈto.ber/, [okˈtoː.ber]
Adjective
octōber (feminine octōbris, neuter octōbre); third declension
- Of October.
- 1st century CE — Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella, De Re Rustica, Book XII
- Cum eius radicem mense octobri, quo[d] maxime matura est.
- 1283 — Tomazina de Savere, published in Josip Lučić (1984) Spisi Dubrovačke Kancelarije, Knjiga II, page 293.
- Die tercio octubris — the third of October
- 1st century CE — Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella, De Re Rustica, Book XII
Usage notes
In Latin, the month names are used as adjectives. In the Classical period, this adjective modifies a noun identifying a particular day, from which the date was reckoned. In Medieval Latin and later periods, the adjective modifies a numeral for the day of the month.
Inflection
Third declension, nominative masculine singular in -er, nominative neuter singular in -e.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | octōber | octōbris | octōbre | octōbrēs | octōbrēs | octōbria | |
Genitive | octōbris | octōbris | octōbris | octōbrium | octōbrium | octōbrium | |
Dative | octōbrī | octōbrī | octōbrī | octōbribus | octōbribus | octōbribus | |
Accusative | octōbrem | octōbrem | octōbre | octōbrēs | octōbrēs | octōbria | |
Ablative | octōbrī | octōbrī | octōbrī | octōbribus | octōbribus | octōbribus | |
Vocative | octōber | octōbris | octōbre | octōbrēs | octōbrēs | octōbria |
Descendants
- Arabic: أكتوبر (ʾoktōbir)
- Aragonese: otubre
- Asturian: ochobre
- Catalan: octubre
- Corsican: ottobre, uttrovi
- English: October
- Esperanto: oktobro
- French: octobre
- Friulian: Otubar
- Galician: outubro
- German: Oktober
- Greek: Οκτώβριος (Októvrios), Οκτώβρης (Októvris)
- Italian: ottobre
- Maltese: Ottubru
- Marshallese: Oktoba
- Mirandese: outubre
- Neapolitan: ottómbre, attrufe
- Ladin: otober, utober
- Ladino: oktubre, ochobre
- Occitan: octòbre
- Old French: oitovre, uitovre, oituevre, octombre, octembre
- Old Portuguese: oytubro
- Old Spanish: ochubre
- Portuguese: outubro
- Romanian: octombrie
- Romansch: otgover, october
- Russian: октябрь (oktjabrʹ)
- Sicilian: uttùviru
- Spanish: octubre
- Venetian: otobre
- Walloon: octôbe
See also
Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- october in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Romansch
Alternative forms
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