Jump to content

October

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: october

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French octobre, from Latin Octōber (“eighth month”), from Latin octō (“eight”), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw (“twice four”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɒkˈtəʊ.bə/
  • IPA(key): /ɑkˈtoʊb.əɹ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊbə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: Oc‧to‧ber

Proper noun

[edit]

October (plural Octobers)

  2. The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November. Abbreviation: Oct.
  3. (rare) A female given name transferred from the month name.
    • 2002 January, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 35, number 4, page 138:
      The other one [book] I just read is October Suite by Maxine Clair (Random House, $23.95). It's about a woman named October. She's a young black schoolteacher in the 1950s ...
    • 2009, C.S. Graham, The Archangel Project, →ISBN, page 31:
      From somewhere in the distance came the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle's siren. Lance flipped open his phone. “Get me the address of a woman named October Guinness . . . That's right, October,” he said again, [...]

Derived terms

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]

Translations

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

October (uncountable)

  1. (now historical) A type of ale traditionally brewed in October. [from 18th c.]
    • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
      [T]he gate of a large chateau, of a most noble and venerable appearance […] induced them to alight and view the apartments, contrary to their first intention of drinking a glass of his October at the door.
    • 1898, Stanley John Weyman, “III. Tutor and Pupils”, in The Castle Inn:
      Sir George, borne along in his chair, peered up at this well-known window--well-known, since in the Oxford of 1767 a man's rooms were furnished if he had tables and chairs, store of beef and October, an apple-pie and Common Room port--and seeing the casement brilliantly lighted, smiled a trifle contemptuously.

Verb

[edit]

October (third-person singular simple present Octobers, present participle Octobering, simple past and past participle Octobered)

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
  1. (historical, transitive) In the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religious christening.

See also

[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]

Latin

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

    By analogy with September, as if from octō and a suffix -ber. In the Roman calendar, the year began with Mārtius (“March”), and Octōber was the eighth month of the year.

    Pronunciation

    [edit]

    Adjective

    [edit]

    Octōber (feminine Octōbris, neuter Octōbre); third-declension three-termination adjective

    1. of October

    Usage notes

    [edit]

    In Classical Latin, month names were regularly used as adjectives, generally modifying a case-form of mēnsis m sg (“month”) or of one of the nouns used in the Roman calendar to refer to specific days of the month from which other days were counted: Calendae f pl (“calends”), Nōnae f pl (“nones”), Īdūs f pl (“ides”). However, the masculine noun mēnsis could be omitted by ellipsis, so the masculine singular forms of month names eventually came to be used as proper nouns.[1]

    The accusative plural adjective forms Aprīlīs, Septembrīs, Octōbrīs, Novembrīs, Decembrīs[2] are ambiguous in writing, being spelled identically to the genitive singular forms of the nouns; nevertheless, the use of ablative singular forms in -ī and comparison with the usage of other month names as adjectives supports the interpretation of -is as an accusative plural adjective ending in Classical Latin phrases such as "kalendas Septembris".[3]

    Declension

    [edit]

    Third-declension three-termination adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine masculine feminine
    nominative Octōber Octōbris Octōbrēs Octōbrēs
    genitive Octōbris Octōbris Octōbrium Octōbrium
    dative Octōbrī Octōbrī Octōbribus Octōbribus
    accusative Octōbrem Octōbrem Octōbrēs
    Octōbrīs     		Octōbrēs
    Octōbrīs
    ablative Octōbrī Octōbrī Octōbribus Octōbribus
    vocative Octōber Octōbris Octōbrēs Octōbrēs
    • In medieval and New Latin, the ablative singular can also be found as Octōbre.

    Proper noun

    [edit]

    Octōber m sg (genitive Octōbris); third declension

    1. October

    Declension

    [edit]

    Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -ī), singular only.

    singular
    nominative Octōber
    genitive Octōbris
    dative Octōbrī
    accusative Octōbrem
    ablative Octōbrī
    vocative Octōber
    • In medieval and New Latin, the ablative singular can also be found as Octōbre.

    Descendants

    [edit]
    Borrowings
    Unsorted borrowings

    These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.

    See also

    [edit]

    References

    [edit]
    1. ^ Karl Gottlob Zumpt (1853) Leonhard Schmitz, Charles Anthon, transl., A Grammar of the Latin Language, 3rd edition, pages 31, 85
    2. ^ Gaeng, Paul A. (1968) An Inquiry into Local Variations in Vulgar Latin: As Reflected in the Vocalism of Christian Inscriptions, page 183
    3. ^ Frost, P. (1861) The Germania and Agricola of Tacitus, page 161

    Further reading

    [edit]
    • “October”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

    Scots

    [edit]

    Etymology

    [edit]

    From Latin Octōber (“of the eighth month”).

    Pronunciation

    [edit]

    Proper noun

    [edit]

    October

    1. October

    See also

    [edit]
    Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=October&oldid=83004732"