calends

n. （罗马古历的）每月第一日；朔日

发音

UK /ˈkæləndz/
其它
US /ˈkælɪndz/

词形变化

only 复数

别名

calend kalends

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Often with initial capital: the first day of a month.

    仅复数

    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.

  2. 2.

    Often with initial capital: the first day of a month.

    The first day of a month of the Roman calendar.

    历史 仅复数
  3. 3.

    A day for settling debts and other accounts.

    仅复数 引申义
  4. 4.

    Synonym of Rosh Hodesh (“the Jewish festival of the new moon, which begins the months of the Hebrew calendar”).

    废旧 仅复数 宗教 引申义
  5. 5.

    Synonym of calendar; (figurative) an account, a record.

    仅复数 罕用
  6. 6.

    The first day of something; a beginning.

    比喻 废旧 仅复数
  7. 7.

    plural of calend

    废旧 罕用

相关短语

Greek calends

词源

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. Sense 2 (“a day for settling debts and other accounts”) refers to the Roman practice of fixing the calends as the day for debts to be paid.

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