Kalends
The Kalends (from Latin corresponded to the first day of each month in the Roman calendar , that of the new moon when the lunar calendar followed a cycle (years of Romulus and Numa Pompilius )
That day, the pundits proclaimed the date of movable feasts of the following month and debtors should pay their debts listed in Calendaria, books of accounts.
To honor the god in March and especially to match the lunar calendar with the solar cycle, ten-day festival, the Kalends of March , are organized by year end. This period is reduced to 8 days later.
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Etymology
This archaic term come from the Etruscan , which could explain the maintenance of the letter k in the writing of dates, the letter which the Romans had, however, quickly removed in favor of c (the few words in Latin are indeed k often of foreign origin).
Another explanation gives a purely Latin origin: it would come from Latin calenda ("what should be called") calare tense ("Call").
Count the days
To find the Latin calendar date, count the number of days until the new moon or the beginning of next month and add two to that figure. For example, on April 22 is the tenth day of the Kalends of May because there are eight days with an additional two.
Thus, the Kalends of March are the leap days before the first day of March is the first month of the Roman year.
Language Heritage
This word is the origin of several words and expressions used in French.
The calendar is derived from the adjective calendarium ("calendar"), which designated a register of accounts (that is discharging the first of the month, the calendarium was strictly the "register of deadlines) and hence the schedule is Originally, the register in which it notes the events related to a specific date of the month. The French word comes directly from the Latin adjective with a more general sense.
Return indefinitely (Ad kalenda graeca) means "postpone indefinitely the implementation of an action." Indeed, the Greeks never had Kalends, the term refers to an unknown date, which therefore amounts to "return to St. Glinglin.
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| Roman calendar | |
|---|---|
| Month: | Martius Aprilis Maius Iunius Quintilis ( Iulius ) Sextilis ( Augustus ) September October November December Ianuarius Februarius Mercedonius |
| Days: | Kalends Nones Ides |
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