词汇 | september |
词源 | September; October; November; December. When the Ro- mans introduced the julian calendar, they retained several month names from their old Roman calendar, despite the fact that these months no longer had the same position on the cal- endar. Thus September, once the Roman seventh month of the year, deriving from the Latin septem, “seven,” remained as the ninth month of the year. The same happened with October, de- riving from octo, “eight,” which became the 10th month; No- vember, deriving from novem, “nine,” became the 11th month; and December, deriving from decem, “10,” became the 12th month. |
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