Month
The month (Of the lat. mensis “month”, and in the past with the plur. “menses”) are one period of arbitrary Temps. According to the article Week, it would seem that the sound
For the solar calendars Western, one month is defined as a twelfth of the Année, itself based on the sidereal year, each month cash a variable number of Jour S.
Other types of calendar can be, for example the lunar calendars, based on the Lunaison S. Of others still can cut out the time in an arbitrary way without correspondence with astronomical phenomena as some Aztec calendars for which the corresponding periods are called Trecena.
Among Celts, with the Roman conquest, human time was copied by dependence on agriculture and the month lasted 28 days, compromised between the approximate duration of a lunation and the variation of its districts. Then a 13 28 days month year ago (364 days) more 1 intercalary day, which corresponded to the change of the year; what was a rather good approximation of the solar year (365,2425) for a return to the equinoxes.
The intermediate duration (over four hundred years, duration of a Gregorian cycle) is 30,436 875 days. The intermediate duration over four years (lasted of the cycle Julien) is 30,4375 days.
It is interesting to note the absence of point if the abbreviation is identical to the complete name.
See also: Roman Calendar
February: lat. pop febrarius , lat. class. februarius “February, the month of purifications” (DER. februare “to purify”) Mars: the month of the god of the war Mars (the return of the period allowed to start a war) April: lat. aprilis “April” which can have the significance to open, because it is the month when the flowers open. May: lat. Maius (mensis) “May”, name of Maia, Italic divinity, girl of Faunus and woman of Vulcan June: comes from Latin junius. This name was probably given in the honor of the Roman goddess Junon. At the time antique, it was the fourth month of the Roman calendar. July: two possible interpretations: deterioration of former French juignet “July” properly “small June” and of the lat. julius name of the 7 {{E}} month of the year (properly “month of Jules, in the honor of Jules César, born in this month, reformer of the Roman calendar)”, the '' gn '' of juignet passing then in '' L '' of July.
August: lat. augustus (mensis) , from where augustus subst., substituted in the honor of the emperor Auguste for Sextilis (mensis) (which is the sixth month after spring) October, September (seventh month): lat. october (mensis) “October, eighth month of Roman year” (DER. of octo “eight”), November (Nov. = 9) and December (lat. class. december, DER. of decem “ten”, December being the tenth month of the Roman year) include themselves/understand only by beginning the year with the vernal equinox, in March.
The name of the months shows that they did not have all the same point of origin of the year: the first 7 months, by a decision later than the 5 last which are counted spring, have their origin in January.
The months of the republican Calendrier (created by Fabre of wild rose 1750-1794) contain all 30 days, and they are composed 3 decades, of which the names of the days are:
primidi, duodi, tridi, quartidi, quintidi, sextidi, septidi, octidi, nonidi and décadi.
The name of the republican month, of which the year starts with the true equinox of autumn to the meridian line of the Observatory of Paris (by making use of complementary days the sanculottides, 5 or 6 placed after fructidor, to make correspond this beginning of the year with the end of the last year) are:
vendémiaire, brumaire, frimaire, nivôse, pluviôse, ventôse, germinal, floréal, meadow, messidor, Thermidor, fructidor.
It is noticed that each end of these names (- iaire, - ose, - ial and - idor) form a unit of season and each month corresponds to the various states of nature.
The republican calendar lasted if little time (13 years: from September 22nd, 1792 to January 1st, 1806), because it N `had not known to replace many bank holidays of the Catholic religion which the old calendar comprised, and it granted officially only one public holiday (décadi) for 9 worked: nobody wanted to apply it to the daily newspaper; and owing to the fact that there was of it no practical application, plus nothing the return to the Gregorian calendar did not prevent, still as a vigor in all Europe. It ressuscita, however, during the Common of Paris from May 6th to 23rd 1871, in the Official journal and the posters placarded by the Committee of Public Hello.
Be-X-old: Месяц (адзінкавымярэннячасу)
Cbk-zam: My
Fiu-vro: Kuu (aomõõt)
Simple: Month
Zh-min-nan: Goe̍h
Western months
History
Traditionally, the months represent reference marks as for the duration of the day and meteorology; that allows rythmer the seasonal occupations as the Chasse or the Agriculture. Historically, the month was defined by the Lunaison. The latter roughly lasting 29,5 days, one speaks about hollow month (30 days) and about full month (31 days).
Abbreviations
The following abbreviations are usually used.
History of the name of the Western months
Month of the republican calendar
Other relations in the months
At the human being, a pregnancy lasts 10 months lunar (or about 9 months solar).
The month is also nowadays an administrative and legal concept. The data of the month and the day of the month (day) of the month makes it possible to define a Date in the year. This intervenes in certain laws and payments, like the fixing of the principal Paid vacation, wintry time when expulsions are prohibited, orders of the prefect of opening of the shooting season…
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