calends
Often with initial capital: the first day of a monthOften with initial capital: the first day of a month.
» He postponed it to the Greek calends.
Он отложил это в долгий ящик.
Meaning
6 senses(plural, plural only)Often with initial capital: the first day of a month.
The third day before the calends of February is 30 January, the third calends of March is 27 or 28 February, and the third of the calends of May is 29 April.
Often with initial capital: the first day of a month.
(Ancient Rome, historical, plural, plural only)The first day of a month of the Roman calendar.
Kalenden
кале́ндыkaléndy
календиkalendy
(broadly, plural, plural only)A day for settling debts and other accounts.
(plural, plural only, rare)Synonym of calendar; (figurative) an account, a record.
(Judaism, broadly, obsolete, plural, plural only)Synonym of Rosh Hodesh (“the Jewish festival of the new moon, which begins the months of the Hebrew calendar”).
(figuratively, obsolete, plural, plural only)The first day of something; a beginning.
Examples
1 sentencesHe postponed it to the Greek calends.
ruОн отложил это в долгий ящик. — marafon
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English calendes, calendas, calendis, kalandes, kalendas, kalendes, kalendez,From Middle English calendes, calendas, calendis, kalandes, kalendas, kalendes, kalendez, kalendis, kalendus (also in the singular forms calende, kalend, kalende), from Latin kalendās, accusative plural of kalendae (“first day of a Roman month”), an archaic variant of calandae, from calandus (“which is to be called or announced solemnly”), the future passive participle of calō (“to call, announce solemnly”) (referring to the Roman practice of proclaiming the first days of the lunar month upon seeing the first signs of a new crescent moon), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). Although the singular form calend (now obsolete, rare) appeared in English (and compare Old English calend, kalendus (“calends; a month”)), no singular form was used in Latin as recurring days of the calendar were always referred to in the plural.
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