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Many know that the prefix oct- means eight, as in octopus or octagon. But why does October, the 10th month of the year, have this prefix?
Red maple (Acer rubrum) leaf in October (Northern hemisphere).October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ôctō meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.
The Romans did not number days of a month sequentially from the 1st through the last day. Instead, they counted back from the three fixed points of the month: the Nones (5th or 7th), the Ides (13th or 15th), and the Kalends (1st) of the following month. The Nones of October was the 7th, and the Ides was the 15th.
In 2011, the Welsh author Roger Bryan discovered an older English form of the poem [8] written at the bottom of a page of saints' days for February within a Latin manuscript in the British Library's Harleian manuscripts. He dated the entry to 1425 ±20 years. [9] [10] [11]
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...
The Romans did not number days of a month sequentially from the 1st through the last day. Instead, they counted back from the three fixed points of the month: the Nones (5th or 7th, depending on the length of the month), the Ides (13th or 15th), and the Kalends (1st) of the following month. The Nones of August was the 5th, and the Ides the 13th.
Tsukimi refers to the Japanese tradition of holding parties to view the harvest moon.The custom is thought to have originated with Japanese aristocrats during the Heian period; influenced by the Chinese custom of Mid-Autumn Festival, [3] they would gather to recite poetry under the full moon of the eighth month of the solar calendar, known as the "Mid-Autumn Moon" (中秋の名月, chūshū no ...
The Ember months are the last four months of the year (September, October, November, and December). The term is a neologism specific to Nigerians, derived from the common suffix '-ember' in the names of these months. [1] The Ember months are regarded as special seasons that are associated with various cultural, religious, social, and economic ...