And it is important to remember that they are number months beginning from when the Romans started their years:
Sept: seven
Oct: eight
Nov: nine
Dec: ten from the Latin words Septem, Octo, Novem, Decem: 7,8,9,10 respectively.
The months prior to September were some thing like Quintilius, Sestilius, translanting into Quintember, Sestember if they were still that today: but JULIUS & AUGUSTUS Caesars respectively changed
the names of those months to honor themselves:July and August. Quinque & Sextum being 5 and 6 in their listing of months before the Caesars.
November is the 11th month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. November is from the Latin novem meaning “nine”. November starts on the same day of the week as February in common years, and March every year.
The -ber in four L. month names is probably from -bris, an adjectival suffix. Tucker thinks that the first five months were named for their positions in the agricultural cycle, and “after the gathering in of the crops, the months were merely numbered.”
Yeah, sorry. When I brought this topic up in my class today, my teacher brought that to my attention.
I didn’t realize about the number system, but thanks. Apparently, my e-mail hasn’t been giving me alerts…
sleeper - 02 November 2009 03:19 PM
The -ber in four L. month names
What exactly does the “L” stand for?
Don’t worry about it, mine has not been giving me notifications for almost a week now, and I cannot get to the “forum” site either.
Site must be breaking down again too. Advertising is piling up everywhere, lots of it is pornography.
