Christmas cake

en-noun

Christmas cake (countable and uncountable, plural Christmas cakes)

They enjoyed music from a live saxophonist during the journey before visiting Braintree Town Hall for refreshments and Christmas cake.

2021 December 29, “Network News: Music train for dementia sufferers”, in RAIL, number 947, page 19:

A rich fruit cake covered with marzipan and icing, traditionally eaten at Christmas.


Julmond

de-noun

Julmond m (strong, genitive Julmondes or Julmonds, plural Julmonde)

Julmondes (genitive)
Julmonds (genitive)
Julmonde (plural)
Julmond (nominative singular)
Julmonde (definite nominative plural)
Julmondes (genitive singular)
Julmonds (genitive singular)
Julmonde (definite genitive plural)
Julmond (dative singular)
Julmonde (dative singular)
Julmonden (dative definite plural)
Julmond (accusative singular)
Julmonde (accusative definite plural)

Der Julmond ist der dunkelste Monat.

(archaic, poetic) December. Jul is also the old-Germanic celebration of the winter solstice, also known as Yule.


грегоријански календар

mk-noun

грегорија́нски ка́лендар

грегорија́нски ка́лендар • (gregorijánski kálendar) m (uncountable)

грегорија́нски ка́лендар (canonical)
gregorijánski kálendar (romanization)
грегоријански календар (indefinite singular)
грегоријанскиот календар (definite singular unspecified)
грегоријанскиов календар (definite proximal singular)
грегоријанскион календар (definite distal singular)
грегоријански календару (singular vocative)

mk-decl-adjnoun-m

грегоријански

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грегоријански календар

грегоријанскиот календар

грегоријанскиов календар

грегоријанскион календар

грегоријански календару

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грегоријанските календари

грегоријанскиве календари

грегоријанскине календари

грегоријански календари

грегоријански календара

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Holy Week

The week preceding Easter containing Palm Sunday, Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday, Holy Wednesday (Spy Wednesday), Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday), Holy Friday (Good Friday), and Holy Saturday.

Easter Week

the week following on from Easter Sunday


pandoro

/panˈdɔːɹəʊ/

Borrowed from Italian pandoro (literally “golden bread”).

bor

A sweet bread loaf of Veronese origin, in the shape of a star, traditionally eaten at Christmas.

意大利黃金麵包

Christmas sweet bread loaf in the shape of a star


pandoro

From pan(e) (“bread”) + d'oro (“golden, of gold”).

compound

pandoro (Christmas sweet bread loaf in the shape of a star)


paska

en-noun

paska (countable and uncountable, plural paskas)

From Ukrainian па́ска (páska) and Russian па́ска (páska), borrowing from Ancient Greek πάσκα (páska), phonetic variant of πάσχα (páskha), from Aramaic פסחא (pasḥa), from Hebrew פֶּסַח (pesaḥ). Doublet of Pesach.

(Canada) A traditional Ukrainian egg bread, often decorated, used in Easter traditions.


panettone

panettone (countable and uncountable, plural panettones or panettoni)

Borrowed from Italian panettone, from Lombard panaton, an augmentative of pan (“bread”).

I have long admired panettone, the ultimate raisin bread, the ideal toast and French toast, a great base for poached fruit, and a substitute for bread in bread pudding which redefines the dish. Panettone looks like the back of an Italian Renaissance cathedral […]

1989, The Atlantic, volume 263, page 52:

In this tasty holiday recipe, traditional panettone is stuffed with a creamy filling. This is a traditional Christmas bread recipe from Milano which can now not only be found across Italy, but worldwide.

2005, Anthony Parkinson, Italian Desserts, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 39:

A soft Italian sourdough brioche from Milan, with candied fruit, usually prepared for Christmas as a dessert.


panettone

→ English: panettone

→ Portuguese: panetone, panettone

→ Spanish: panetone, panettone, panetón

From Milanese Lombard panaton, an augmentative of pan (“bread”). In sense 2, for its shape.

[…] oggi s’è fatto baldoria: il signor Cattaneo—e il professore Mangili—sono stati a desinare con noi: e noi col rito degli avi abbiamo trinciata una pollastra arrosto, e distribuito a’ nostri ospiti il panettone

1808 December 26, Ugo Foscolo, [untitled letter]; published in “154. Al medesimo, a Milano - Pavia, lunedì 26 dicembre 1808 [154 - To the same [Ugo Brunetti], in Milan (Pavia, Monday 26 December 1808)]”, in Epistolario di Ugo Foscolo [Letters of Ugo Foscolo], volume 1, Florence: Felice Le Monnier, 1852, page 190:

[…] today we celebrated: mister Cattaneo, and professor Mangili, have had lunch with us: and we, through the ritual of our forefathers, have cut up a roasted chicken, and shared out the panettone to our guests.

PANETTONE, pane grande fatto per lo più con pasta assai lievitata fatta con fior di farina, entrovi uova, zucchero e burro, uve di Smirne, cedro, pistacchio e altro.

[1868, Giacinto Carena, “Panettone”, in Nuovo vocabolario italiano d’arti e mestieri, 1ˢᵗ Milanese edition, Milan: Francesco Pagnoni, page 342:

Panettone - large bread chiefly made with long-leavened dough made with top-quality flour, inside of which [are] eggs, sugar, and butter, sultana, citron, pistachio, and more.

Se proprio vuoi che io riceva qualche cosa da te per Natale, data la possibilità concessa, ti prego di essere molto parca e limitata. […] Se vuoi sapere i miei desideri, eccoli: un po’ di panettone e, se è possibile, qualche vasetto di quell’estratto concentrato di brodo vegetale che una volta mi mandasti.

1932 December 12, Antonio Gramsci, [untitled letter]; published in Antonio Santucci, editor, Antonio Gramsci - Lettere dal carcere [Antonio Gramsci - Letters from prison], volume 2, Cles: Editrice L'Unità S.p.A., 1988 February 14:

If you really want me to have something from you for Christmas, considering the chance offered, I beg you to be very frugal and restrained. […] If you want to know my wishes, here they are: a bit of panettone, and—if it is possible—a few jars of that concentrated vegetable broth extract you once sent to me.

Il segreto di un buon panettone è dunque nella lievitazione, rigorosamente naturale (niente lieviti chimici) e nel doppio impasto.

2004, Dino Galiazzo, “Panettone”, in La guida del consumatore [The consumer's guide], Novara: De Agostini, →ISBN, page 377:

The secret of a good panettone is therefore in the strictly natural leavening (no chemical yeast), and the double kneading.

Negli anni ’80 Nicola sfornò i primi duemila panettoni artigianali. Oggi, nel laboratorio di duemila metri quadrati (mille per la produzione, altrettanti per il confezionamento), lavorano circa 130 persone nei periodi di massima produzione a Natale 2019 sono stati sfornati (e venduti) più di un milione di chili di panettoni.

2020 March 12, Laura Mari, “Fiasconaro, il pasticciere che ha conquistato il mondo con colombe e panettoni [Fiasconaro, the pastrymaker who has conquered the world with colomba cakes and panettoni]”, in La Repubblica:

In the 80s, Nicolà produced the first two thousand homemade panettoni. Today, in the periods of peak production, about 130 people work in the two-thousand-square-meters laboratory (a thousand for production, and as many for packaging); in Christmas 2019, more than a million kilos of panettoni have been produced (and sold).

panettone (Christmas brioche with candied fruit)


Nollaig

head

Nollaig f (genitive Nollag, nominative plural Nollaigí)

Nollag (genitive)
Nollaigí (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
Nollaig (indefinite singular)
Nollaigí (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a Nollaig (indefinite singular)
a Nollaigí (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
Nollag (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an Nollaig (definite singular)
na Nollaigí (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na Nollag (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an Nollaig (definite singular)
don Nollaig (definite singular)
leis na Nollaigí (definite plural)

/ˈn̪ˠɔl̪ˠɪɟ/

/ˈn̪ˠɔl̪ˠɪc/

/ˈn̪ˠʌl̪ˠɪc/

From Old Irish Notlaic, from Latin nātālīcia (“a birthday party”), from nātālis (“natal”), from nātus (“born”). Compare Welsh Nadolig, Breton Nedeleg and French Noël.

a male or female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Noel or Noelle


Nollaig

Nollaig f (genitive Nollaige, plural Nollaigean)

/ˈn̪ˠɔl̪ˠɪkʲ/

From Old Irish Notlaic, from Latin nātālīcia (“a birthday party”), with specific reference to the birth of Christ.


Kriss Kringle

The practice of hanging up stockings in the chimney corner for Kriss Kringle to fill with toys, pretty books, bon-bons, &c., for good children, is being superseded by that of placing a Christmas Tree on the table to await the annual visit of the worthy Santa Klaus.

1847, “Advertisement”, in Kriss Kringle’s Christmas Tree. A Holiday Present for Boys and Girls, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by Grigg & Elliot, →OCLC:

What if that other room, also, had its Christmas tree? What if in every room these evidences of Kriss Kringle’s more enterprising handiwork had already been obtruded?

1878, Leonard Kip, “St. Nicholas and the Gnome”, in Hannibal’s Man and Other Tales. The Argus Christmas Stories, Albany, N.Y.: The Argus Company, printers, →OCLC, chapter III, page 331:

The Dutch of New Netherlands called the good giver of gifts, Kriss Kringle, the Christ Child, and the name came into our family vocabulary through our Dutch ancestor, Great-grandfather Wible.

1937, Emma Hackett Knox, “Holidays”, in The Story of the Old Homestead: (The Smith-Hackett Homestead), [Rahway, N.J.]: Privately printed [by Quinn & Boden Co.], →OCLC, part II (The Owners and the Families that have Lived on the Old Homestead), pages 205–206:


mí

mí f (genitive singular míosa, nominative plural míonna)

míosa (genitive singular)
míonna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
mí (indefinite singular)
míonna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a mhí (indefinite singular)
a mhíonna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
míosa (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
mís (archaic dialectal indefinite singular)
nominative (definite)
an mhí (definite singular)
na míonna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na míosa (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an mí (definite singular)
leis an mís (archaic definite dialectal singular)
don mhí (definite singular)
don mhís (archaic definite dialectal singular)
leis na míonna (definite plural)

From Old Irish mí, from Proto-Celtic *mīns, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s.


mí

mí (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
mí (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a mhí (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an mhí (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
na mí (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an mí (definite singular)
don mhí (definite singular)

From Middle Irish mide, from Old Irish mide, from Proto-Celtic *medyos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos.


mí

mí (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
mí (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a mhí (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an mí (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
an mhí (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an mí (definite singular)
don mhí (definite singular)
mí
mhí

From Latin mīra, from the first word of the third line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn which solfège was based on because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.


Winterval

(UK) A period of holidays in midwinter, including both secular and religious holidays (i.e. not just the specifically Christian and Western festivals of Christmas and New Year's Day).


Common Era

Originally Vulgar Era. The English phrase "common Era" appears at least as early as 1708, and by 1715 is used synonymously with "Christian Era" and "Vulgar Era".

The second Book is divided into eight Chapters, treats of the origin of the Greek Characters, and changes that happen'd in them, to the fourth Century of the common Era.

1708 January, The History of the Works of the Learned, volume 10, London: Printed for H. Rhodes, retrieved 2011-10-31, page 513:

Some say the World was created 3950 Years before the common Æra of Christ

1715, David Gregory with John Nicholson and John Morphew, The Elements of Astronomy, Physical and Geometrical, volume v. 1 (Astronomy), London: printed for J. Nicholson, and sold by J. Morphew, retrieved 2008-01-05, page 252:

The vulgar Era, or Anno Domini; the fourth year of Jesus Christ, the first of which was but eight days." In its article on General Chronology, the 1908 Catholic Encyclopedia stated that "Foremost among these (dating eras) is that which is now adopted by all civilized peoples and known as the Christian, Vulgar or Common Era, in the twentieth century of which we are now living.

1835, Alexander Campbell, Living Oracles:

1796 years before the common era, and 1020 before the first Olympiad.

1770, William Hooper with Jacob Friedrich Bielfeld, The Elements of Universal Eurdition (v. 2), London: G. Scott, printer, for J Robson, bookseller in New-Bond Street, and B. Law in Ave-Mary Lane, retrieved 2007-09-13, page p 105:

(chronology) The secular equivalent of anno Domini and the Christian Era, the internationally recognized method of numbering years on the Gregorian calendar.

но́вата е́ра

на́шей э́ры f (nášej éry) (genitive of на́ша э́ра (náša éra))


Julian calendar

Named after Julius Caesar who introduced the calendar in 46 BCE.

The calendar which was used in the western world before the present-day Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar differed in having all multiple-of-4 years as leap years.


क्रिसमस

hi-proper noun

क्रिसमस • (krismas) m (Urdu spelling کرسمس)

क्रिसमस और नया वर्ष शुभकामनाएँ

आज विश्व में ईसाई धर्म में विश्वास रखनेवाले असंख्य लोग हैं और प्रभु जीसस के जन्मदिन को 'क्रिसमस' के रूप में मनाते हैं। भारत में इसे 'बड़ा दिन' भी कहा जाता है।

2009, Rajeshwari Shandilya, Bharatiya Parva Evam Tyohar, Prabhat Prakashan, →ISBN, page 179:

There are innumerable believers of Christianity in the world today and they celebrate the birthday of Lord Jesus as 'Christmas'. In India, it is also called 'big day'.

āj viśva mẽ īsāī dharm mẽ viśvās rakhnevāle asaṅkhya log ha͠i aur prabhu jīsas ke janmadin ko 'krismas' ke rūp mẽ manāte ha͠i. bhārat mẽ ise 'baṛā din' bhī kahā jātā hai.

Christmas (festival observed on December 25 commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ)


बड़ा दिन

hi-noun

बड़ा दिन • (baṛā din) m (Urdu spelling بڑا دن)

baṛā din (romanization)
بڑا دن (Urdu)
बड़ा दिन (direct singular)
बड़े दिन (direct plural)
बड़े दिन (oblique singular)
बड़े दिनों (oblique plural)
बड़े दिन (singular vocative)
बड़े दिनो (plural vocative)

hi-ndecl

बड़ा<+> दिन<M>


Hanukkah

Originated 1890–95. From Hebrew חנוכה / חֲנֻכָּה (khanuká, “dedication, consecration”) from חָנַךְ (khanákh, “to dedicate, to consecrate”).

bor

חנוכה / חֲנֻכָּה

(Judaism) An eight-day Jewish festival, starting on the 25th day of Kislev, which commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem after the victory of the Maccabees over the Greek Syrians.

followed by Chanukah and Hanukah. Other forms


Advent Sunday

The fourth Sunday before Christmas Day, the start of Advent: 30 November (Saint Andrew's Day) or the nearest Sunday to it.


bissextile year

en-noun

bissextile year (plural bissextile years)


Saint Andrew's Day

The feast day of Saint Andrew, celebrated on November 30.


jour de l'an

jour de l’ an (canonical masculine)
jours de l’an (plural)

/ʒuʁ də l‿ɑ̃/


midsummer moon

The full moon or the lunar month around midsummer.


midsummer madness

Why this is very midsummer madness.

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

"Madness. Midsummer madness," muttered Gulliman.

1959, Isaac Asimov, “All the Troubles of the World”, in Nine Tomorrows: Tales of the Near Future, →OCLC, page 160:

Madness attributable to the heat of summer, or to the midsummer moon.


last quarter

the waning lunar phase halfway between full moon and new moon.


gibbous moon

A bat, against the gibbous moons,
Danced, implike, with its lone delight;
The glowworm scrawled a golden rune
Upon the dark; and, emerald-strewn,
The firefly hung with lamps the night.

(astronomy) A lunar phase either side of the full moon when the moon's disc as seen from the Earth is larger than a semicircle.


Lady Day

By Lady Day the Scriptorium was ready to receive the "copying and burrowing" of the host of readers who had been directed by Furnivall for the past twenty years.

1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 173:

25th March, Christian holy day, the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.


April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day (plural April Fools' Days)

(Scottish)

The first day in April, when tricks and practical jokes are traditionally played


first quarter

(astronomy) The waxing lunar phase, from new moon to half way between new moon and full moon.


quarter day

[T]he money was deposited in the hands of the mortgager, who, in the hearing of the lender, laid strong injunctions on his steward to pay the interest punctually at quarter-day.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, formerly established as a time for rents and other payments to be due, tenancies to begin and end, and various meetings and assemblies to be held.

사시가절

each of the four days starting a new quarter year


lunar phase

(astronomy) Any of the near-monthly cyclically occurring aspects or appearances presented by a moon as seen from its planet (unless otherwise specified, the Moon as seen from Earth).

fase lunar

any one of the aspects presented by the moon

harvest moon

these are recurrent but less frequently than near-monthly


Ascension Day

The fortieth day of Easter, that is the Thursday 39 days after Easter.


synodic month

the variably cyclic period from one new moon until the next.


lunar month

A period from one new moon until the next.

စန္ဒြမာသ

a period from one new moon until the next

A synodic month of approximately 29.53 days, measured from a lunar phase until the return of that same phase.

A sidereal month of approximately 27.32 days, the length of time taken by the moon in its orbit about the Earth to return to the same point as viewed against the background of stars.


Christmastide

Christmastide (countable and uncountable, plural Christmastides)

From Christmas + -tide (“period around a festival”).


yuletide

en-noun

yuletide (countable and uncountable, plural yuletides)

From Yule (“Germanic Winter Festival”) + -tide (“period around a festival”); compare Swedish juletid.

suffix

Alternative letter-case form of Yuletide (“Christmas or the Christmas season”).


Martinmas

en-noun

Martinmas (countable and uncountable, plural Martinmases)

St Martin's Day, 11th November. A Scottish quarter day.


Childermas

From Childermas-Day, from Middle English Childermasse day, from childer (“children”) + masse (“mass, religious service”).

compound

Western Christianity
Western Christianity

Eastern Christianity
Eastern Christianity

(Christianity) A religious service and holiday commemorating the supposed Massacre of the Innocents in Judea around the time of the birth of Christ, typically observed on 28 December in Western Christianity and 29 December in Eastern Christianity; in Spanish and Latin American contexts, the day is frequently filled with light-hearted pranks similar to April Fools' Day.

Onnozele Kinderen

day commemorating the Massacre of the Innocents


lunation

The irregular period from one new moon until the next.

lunacja

the name of term given the irregular period from one new moon until the next


movable feast

The Sementivae was a movable feast in January for the spring sowing with offerings made to Tellus and Ceres, agricultural deities.

2015, James W. Ermatinger, The World of Ancient Rome, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 317:

A day of note, frequently a Christian festival, whose date changes from year to year according to a set of rules.


Nochevieja

From noche vieja (literally “old night”).


Nochebuena

From noche buena (literally “good night”).

Reuniones de 10 personas, toque de queda a la 1.30 en Nochebuena y Nochevieja y confinamiento perimetral de las comunidades autónomas, excepto para visitar a “familiares y allegados”.

2020 December 2, José Marcos, Pablo Linde, “Sanidad propone retrasar el toque de queda a la 1.30 en Nochebuena y Nochevieja”, in El País, retrieved 2020-12-02:


intercalate

en-verb

intercalate (third-person singular simple present intercalates, present participle intercalating, simple past and past participle intercalated)

intercalates (present singular third-person)
intercalating (participle present)
intercalated (participle past)
intercalated (past)

Borrowed from Latin intercalātus (perfect passive participle of intercalō (“I proclaim that something has been intercalated, I insert”)), from inter- (“between, among”) + calo (“I call, I proclaim”).

der

perfect passive participle of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">intercalō</i> (“I proclaim that something has been intercalated, I insert”)

af

'[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day. Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere.

1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, chapter 2, in Essays: Second Series:

At some unknown period, the five days, known to the present time by the names of the five Gathic hymns of Zarathushtra, were intercalated at the end of the twelfth month, to complete the three hundred and sixty-five days of the solar year.

1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 172:

To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.


Ash Wednesday

From Middle English Aschewednysday, Axwednesdai, from asshe, axe (“ash”) + Wednesdai, Wednysday (“Wednesday”), from the custom of using the blessed ashes of the previous year's palm fronds (cf. Palm Sunday) to mark the heads of the congregation on the day. By surface analysis, ash + Wednesday.

Pope Gregory the Great introduced the sprinkling of ashes... which gave it the name of Ash-Wednesday.

1834, Penny Cyclopaedia, volume II, page 454:

(Christianity) The Wednesday 46 days before Easter in a given year, (Catholicism) traditionally observed as the beginning of Lent and a day of strict abstention from certain foods and pleasures.

Մոխրոտ չորեքշաբթի

the Christian day of penitence 46 days before Easter


lata

latka (diminutive)
lata (nominative plural)
lat (genitive plural)
latom (dative plural)
lata (accusative plural)
latami (instrumental plural)
laty (instrumental plural)
latach (locative plural)
lata (plural vocative)

years (period difficult to measure precisely)


bissextile month

en-noun

bissextile month (plural bissextile months)

A month with an extra day in a leap year.

lună bisectilă

a month with an extra day in a leap year


kalends

My book with Professor [John Ronald Reuel] Tolkien – any book in collaboration with that great but dilatory and unmethodical man – is dated, I fear, to appear on the Greek Kalends!

1950 January 12, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “Letters: 1950 [To Sister Penelope CSMV (BOD)]”, in Walter Hooper, editor, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, volumes III (Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963), New York, N.Y.: HarperSanFrancisco, HarperCollins, →ISBN, pages 5–6:

The interesting thing about these ceremonies is that they must have originated in a period when the Romans were using true lunar months based on the observation of the crescent moon. The Kalends then would have been the day after the evening on which the crescent had been first sighted, the Nones would have been the first day when the moon was at the first quarter [...] In the calendar of the late Republic the lunar months have disappeared and the days have been fixed into a rigid pattern.

1967, Agnes Kirsopp Michels, “The Pre-Julian Calendar”, in The Calendar of the Roman Republic, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →OCLC, part I (The Calendar of the First Century B.C.), page 21:

[March, May, Quintilis, and October] also have their Nones on the seventh, as Numa [Pompilius] ordained, because Julius [Caesar] changed nothing about them. As for January, Sextilis, and December, they still have their Nones on the fifth, though they began to have thirty-one days after Caesar added two days to each, and it is nineteen days from their Ides to the following Kalends, because in adding the two days Caesar did not want to insert them before either the Nones or the Ides, lest an unprecedented postponement mar religious observance associated with the Nones or Ides themselves, which have a fixed date.

2011, Macrobius, chapter 14, in Robert A. Kaster, transl., Saturnalia (Loeb Classical Library), Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, book I, section 9, page 171:


C19 food supply disruptions […] C19 travel restrictions

2020, Derek D. HeadeySophie Goudetet al., Poverty and food insecurity during COVID-19: Telephone survey evidence from mothers in rural and urban Myanmar, page 13:

They are averaging less than 10 deaths with (not from) C19 a day […]

2021 January 28, "16 states where COVID-19 is spreading fastest, slowest: Jan. 28", Beckers Hospital Review

Median follow-up time from C19 diagnosis to last follow-up was 4.8 months […]

2021, Justin Shaya et al., Long-term outcomes of cancer patients infected with COVID-19: Proceedings of the AACR Virtual Meeting: COVID-19 and Cancer:

(astronomy) Describing a grouping of stars in the Milky Way galaxy halo that are 2,500 times lower than the sun.


Carling Sunday

From the carling peas traditionally eaten on the day, themselves named for Care Sunday.

(British, dated or dialectal) Synonym of Passion Sunday: the fifth Sunday in Lent.


Care Sunday

From Old English caru (“care”) in its sense of “sorrow, trouble, suffering,” used as a calque of Latin passio (“passion”) in its sense of “suffering”, in reference to the Passion of Christ preceding and during Jesus's crucifixion.

(uncommon, archaic) Synonym of Passion Sunday: the fifth Sunday in Lent.


Passiontide

"The last two weeks of Lent form the season called Passiontide. During this time all crucifixes and sacred images are veiled in violet. In Masses of the season, the psalm Judica me is not said at the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar, and there is no Gloria Patri at the Introit or at the Lavabo".

The period in the Christian calendar from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday.


Judica Sunday

From Latin Judica (“Judge!”), from the first word of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally a Latin translation of Psalm 43.

Thus in 1647, I in all humility accepted this removal, and preached my trial sermon on Judica Sunday, in the presence of the parishioners and commissaries.

1862, Mrs. Malcolm (translator), Gustav Freytag (author), Martin Bötzinger (primary source), Pictures of German Life In the XVᵗʰ, XVIᵗʰ and XVIIᵗʰ Centuries, volume 2, page 115, Chapman and Hall (London)

The diet at Nuremberg was to be held on Invocavit Sunday, 2nd March, and that at the Emperor’s Court on Judica''' Sunday, 3Oth March.

1906, Ludwig Pastor, The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages, page 96:

The fifth Sunday is “Judicia.” (Judge. Psalm 43:I.) Judicia Sunday is sometimes also called Black Sunday in contrast with the Sunday before it, and the nearness of the dark sorrows of Passion Week and Good Friday.

1950, “Luther League Review”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Lutheran Church in America:

(Roman Catholicism) Synonym of Passion Sunday: the fifth Sunday in Lent.


Collop Monday

Collops (“sliced bacon”) and eggs were traditionally eaten on this day.

(England, northern and east Midlands, now chiefly historical) The day before Shrove Tuesday.


Australia Day

26th January, Australia's National Day in commemoration of the foundation of the first settlement in 1788.


Burns night

From the name of Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns (1759–1796) + night.

The Upholsterers and females in the employment of Messrs. J. Allan & Sons, met on the Burns' night to tea and supper in Mrs. Sheriff's Hotel, […]

1859, “Aberdeen”, in James Ballantine, editor, Chronicle of the Hundredth Birthday of Robert Burns, Edinburgh, London: A[rchibald] Fullarton & Co., →OCLC, page 145:

With those hectic ‘Burns’ Nights’ when the emphasis, like their own, falls on food and drink and the absence of all things unpleasant—on the absence, in particular, of any hard thinking—they go well enough.

1956, Christina Keith, “The Background of Burns' Thought—Burns' Qualities—Burns and Rousseau—Burns and Homer—Women in Scots Literature and History—Burns as a Poet”, in The Russet Coat: A Critical Study of Burns' Poetry and of Its Background, London: Robert Hale, →OCLC, page 177:

In fact, Burns is the only writer whose birthday is celebrated with a party every year by people all over the globe. It's called Burns Night. Why do people celebrate Burns Night? Because Robert Burns was brilliant. And the stuff he wrote is still brilliant.

2007, Allan Burnett, “Prologue”, in Robert Burns and All That, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN:

We commemorate the birth of our Scottish National Poet Rabbie Burns on January 25th. Will you two organise the traditional Burns Night Supper? Yes or no? Yes? Splendid. Over to you. Goodbye.

2008, Barry Cryer; Graeme Garden, “Burns Night!”, in The Doings of Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea?, London: Preface Publishing, Random House; republished London: Preface Publishing, Random House, 2009, paperback edition, page 261

Burns Night is a social occasion, when friends gather to eat haggis (the famous Scottish dish), tatties (potatoes) and neeps (turnips) and drink a wee dram (a small drink of spirits) or two to Burns' dear departed ghost. The night is also filled with ritual. The haggis is traditionally brought to the table accompanied by a piper playing traditional tunes on the bagpipes, where Burns' 'An Ode to the Haggis' is read out to much applause.

2009, Jamie Grant, “The Scots”, in CultureShock! Scotland: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (CultureShock!), 4th edition, Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, pages 44–45:

An event held on or around the evening of 25th January in celebration of the Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns (born on that day in 1759), usually involving Scottish foods and recitals of his poetry.

Alexander Nasmyth
Robert Burns
Scottish National Portrait Gallery


calends

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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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Containing an Account of Their Manners, Customs, Diversions, Religious Rites, Philosophy, Festivals, Oracles, Laws, Arts, Engines of War, Weights, Measures, Money, Medals, Computation and Division of Time, Chronological Terms, Heresies in the Primitive Church, &c. &c.

The feasts of the Israelites were the Sabbath; the first day of each month, called in our translations calends, or new-moon; the three great feasts of the passover, pentecost, and tabernacles, instituted in memory of the three greatest blessings they received from God, […]

1809, Claude Fleury, “Their Religion”, in Adam Clarke, transl., The Manners of the Ancient Israelites; […], 3rd edition, London: Sold by William Baynes, […]; J[oseph] Butterworth, […]; and T. Blanshard, […], →OCLC, page 147:

חֹדֶשׁ m. […] the new moon, the day of the new moon, the calends of a lunar month which was a festival of the ancient Hebrews, Num[bers] 29:6; 1 Sam[uel] 20:5; 18:24; Ex[odus] 19:1, […]

1846, [Wilhelm] Gesenius, “חֹדֶשׁ”, in translated by Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, Gesenius’s Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures. Translated, with Additions and Corrections from the Author’s Thesaurus and Other Works, London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, […], →OCLC, page CCLXIII, column 1:

(by extension, biblical, Judaism, obsolete) Synonym of Rosh Hodesh (“the Jewish festival of the new moon, which begins the months of the Hebrew calendar”)


intercalation

en-noun

intercalation (countable and uncountable, plural intercalations)

From Latin intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (“call out, proclaim”).

A period inserted into a calendar as in a leap year.


-tide

From Old English tīd (“point or portion of time, due time, period, season; feast-day, canonical hour”); see tide.

inh

Time; often added to a festival name to indicate the period around that festival or a season beginning or ending with it.


bissextile

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From Latin bisextilis/bissextilis (annus) (“bissextile year”), from bisextus + -ilis, from bis- (“two; twice; doubled”) + sextus (“sixth”) + dies (“day”), from the Julian calendar's original reckoning of its quadrennial intercalary day as a 48-hour February 24, subsequently distinguished as the two separate days of the sixth day before the March calends (sexto Kalendas Martii) and the "doubled sixth day". (February 24 is now normally understood as five days before the first of March, but was called the sixth by the Romans owing to their inclusive counting of dates. See Roman calendar on Wikipedia.)

uder

Synonym of leap year: a year with an intercalary day.


intercalary

From Latin intercalārius, from intercalāris, from intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (“call out, proclaim”).

Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)

كَبِيس

of a time period, inserted between others


tropical year

The time that it takes for the Sun to return to the same position along the ecliptic, as viewed from the Earth, especially, completing a full cycle of seasons.

(in particular) A vernal equinox year; the time between two successive vernal equinoxes.

回歸年

small Solar System body
small Solar System body

(by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star, taking into account orbital precession.


julgransfot

julgransfot (indefinite nominative singular)

a small pot in which a Christmas tree is placed


summertime

en-noun

summertime (countable and uncountable, plural summertimes)

From Middle English somertime, equivalent to summer + time. Compare Dutch zomertijd (“summertime”), German Sommerzeit (“summertime”), Danish sommertiden (“summertime”), Swedish sommartid (“summertime”). Compare summertide.


和暦

Coordinate term: 西暦 (seireki, “Western calendar”)


ἡμέρα

grc-noun

ἡμέρᾱ • (hēmérā) f (genitive ἡμέρᾱς); first declension

ἡμέρᾱ (canonical)
hēmérā (romanization)
ἡμέρᾱς (genitive)
ἡ ἡμέρᾱ (nominative singular)
τὼ ἡμέρᾱ (dual nominative)
αἱ ἡμέραι (nominative plural)
τῆς ἡμέρᾱς (genitive singular)
τοῖν ἡμέραιν (dual genitive)
τῶν ἡμερῶν (genitive plural)
τῇ ἡμέρᾳ (dative singular)
τοῖν ἡμέραιν (dative dual)
ταῖς ἡμέραις (dative plural)
τὴν ἡμέρᾱν (accusative singular)
τὼ ἡμέρᾱ (accusative dual)
τᾱ̀ς ἡμέρᾱς (accusative plural)
ἡμέρᾱ (singular vocative)
ἡμέρᾱ (dual vocative)
ἡμέραι (plural vocative)
ἡ ἡμέρη (nominative singular)
τὼ ἡμέρᾱ (dual nominative)
αἱ ἡμέραι (nominative plural)
τῆς ἡμέρης (genitive singular)
τοῖν ἡμέραιν (dual genitive)
τῶν ἡμερέων (genitive plural)
ἡμερῶν (genitive plural)
τῇ ἡμέρῃ (dative singular)
τοῖν ἡμέραιν (dative dual)
τῇσῐ (dative plural)
τῇσῐν ἡμέρῃσῐ (dative plural)
ἡμέρῃσῐν (dative plural)
têisi hēmérēisi (dative plural)
têisi hēmérēisin (dative plural)
têisini (dative plural)
têisinin (dative plural)
τὴν ἡμέρην (accusative singular)
τὼ ἡμέρᾱ (accusative dual)
τᾱ̀ς ἡμέρᾱς (accusative plural)
ἡμέρη (singular vocative)
ἡμέρᾱ (dual vocative)
ἡμέραι (plural vocative)
ᾱ̔ ἁμέρᾱ (nominative singular)
τὼ ἁμέρᾱ (dual nominative)
ταὶ ἁμέραι (nominative plural)
τᾶς ἁμέρᾱς (genitive singular)
τοῖν ἁμέραιν (dual genitive)
τᾶν ἁμερᾶν (genitive plural)
τᾷ ἁμέρᾳ (dative singular)
τοῖν ἁμέραιν (dative dual)
ταῖς ἁμέραις (dative plural)
τᾱ̀ν ἁμέρᾱν (accusative singular)
τὼ ἁμέρᾱ (accusative dual)
τᾱ̀ς ἁμέρᾱς (accusative plural)
ἁμέρᾱ (singular vocative)
ἁμέρᾱ (dual vocative)
ἁμέραι (plural vocative)

Greek: ημέρα (iméra)

Mariupol Greek: ме́ра (mjéra)

Tsakonian: αμέρα (améra)

Lengthened form of ἦμαρ (êmar, “day”). The initial aspiration ῾ (h) in Attic is probably by analogy with ἑσπέρᾱ (hespérā). Cognate with Old Armenian աւր (awr, “day”).


αἰών

αἰών • (aiṓn) m (genitive αἰῶνος); third declension

aiṓn (romanization)
αἰῶνος (genitive)
ὁ αἰών (nominative singular)
τὼ αἰῶνε (dual nominative)
οἱ αἰῶνες (nominative plural)
τοῦ αἰῶνος (genitive singular)
τοῖν αἰώνοιν (dual genitive)
τῶν αἰώνων (genitive plural)
τῷ αἰῶνῐ (dative singular)
τοῖν αἰώνοιν (dative dual)
τοῖς αἰῶσῐ (dative plural)
αἰῶσῐν (dative plural)
toîs aiôsi (dative plural)
toîs aiôsin (dative plural)
τὸν αἰῶνᾰ (accusative singular)
τὼ αἰῶνε (accusative dual)
τοὺς αἰῶνᾰς (accusative plural)
αἰών (singular vocative)
αἰῶνε (dual vocative)
αἰῶνες (plural vocative)

→ English: æon

→ French: æon

→ Greek: αιώνας (aiónas)

desctree

→ Latin: æon, aeon
Spanish: eón
French: éon
Italian: eone
→ English: eon, aeon

→ Russian: эо́н (eón)

From earlier αἰϝών (aiwṓn), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force, life, long life, eternity”), whence also ἀεί (aeí, “always”). Cognate with Latin aevum, English aye.


Guy Fawkes Night

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(British) The revelry on Guy Fawkes Day (the 5th of November) in commemoration of the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, traditionally including the burning of effigies of the pope, Guy Fawkes, and/or the Devil.


ἔτος

grc-noun

ἔτος • (étos) n (genitive ἔτεος or ἔτους); third declension

étos (romanization)
ἔτεος (genitive)
ἔτους (genitive)
τὸ ἔτος (nominative singular)
τὼ ἔτει (dual nominative)
τᾰ̀ ἔτη (nominative plural)
τοῦ ἔτους (genitive singular)
τοῖν ἐτοῖν (dual genitive)
τῶν ἐτῶν (genitive plural)
τῷ ἔτῃ (dative singular)
ἔτει (dative singular)
τοῖν ἐτοῖν (dative dual)
τοῖς ἔτεσῐ (dative plural)
ἔτεσῐν (dative plural)
toîs étesi (dative plural)
toîs étesin (dative plural)
τὸ ἔτος (accusative singular)
τὼ ἔτει (accusative dual)
τᾰ̀ ἔτη (accusative plural)
ἔτος (singular vocative)
ἔτει (dual vocative)
ἔτη (plural vocative)
ἔτος (nominative singular)
ἔτει (dual nominative)
ἔτεε (dual nominative)
ἔτεᾰ (nominative plural)
ἔτεος (genitive singular)
ἔτευς (genitive singular)
ἐτέοιν (dual genitive)
ἐτέων (genitive plural)
ἔτει (dative singular)
ἔτεῐ̈ (dative singular)
ἐτέοιν (dative dual)
ἔτεσῐ (dative plural)
ἔτεσῐν (dative plural)
étesi (dative plural)
étesin (dative plural)
ἔτος (accusative singular)
ἔτει (accusative dual)
ἔτεε (accusative dual)
ἔτεᾰ (accusative plural)
ἔτος (singular vocative)
ἔτει (dual vocative)
ἔτεε (dual vocative)
ἔτεᾰ (plural vocative)

From ϝέτος (wétos), from Proto-Hellenic *wétos, from Proto-Indo-European *wétos (“year”). Cognates include Latin vetus and Sanskrit वत्स (vatsá). See also Ancient Greek πέρυσι (pérusi).


Срећна Нова година

sh-phrase

Сре̏ћна Но̏ва го̏дина!

Сре̏ћна Но̏ва го̏дина! (Latin spelling Srȅćna Nȍva gȍdina!)

Сре̏ћна Но̏ва го̏дина ! (canonical)
Srȅćna Nȍva gȍdina! (romanization)


Ваистину васкрсе

ваистину васкрсе

ваистину васкрсе (Latin spelling vaistinu vaskrse)

ваистину васкрсе (canonical)
vaistinu vaskrse (romanization)


Христос васкрсе

Христос васкрсе

Христос васкрсе (Latin spelling Hristos vaskrse)

Literally, “Christ was resurrected” or "Christ rose".


vaistinu vaskrse

vaistinu vaskrse (Cyrillic spelling ваистину васкрсе)

ваистину васкрсе (Cyrillic)


Sretna Nova godina

Srȅtna Nȍva gȍdina! (Cyrillic spelling Сре̏тна Но̏ва го̏дина!)

Srȅtna Nȍva gȍdina! (canonical)
Сре̏тна Но̏ва го̏дина! (Cyrillic)


θέρος

grc-noun

θέρος • (théros) n (genitive θέρους or θέρεος); third declension

théros (romanization)
θέρους (genitive)
θέρεος (genitive)
τὸ θέρος (nominative singular)
τὼ θέρει (dual nominative)
τᾰ̀ θέρη (nominative plural)
τοῦ θέρους (genitive singular)
τοῖν θεροῖν (dual genitive)
τῶν θερῶν (genitive plural)
τῷ θέρει (dative singular)
τοῖν θεροῖν (dative dual)
τοῖς θέρεσῐ (dative plural)
θέρεσῐν (dative plural)
toîs théresi (dative plural)
toîs théresin (dative plural)
τὸ θέρος (accusative singular)
τὼ θέρει (accusative dual)
τᾰ̀ θέρη (accusative plural)
θέρος (singular vocative)
θέρει (dual vocative)
θέρη (plural vocative)
τὸ θέρος (nominative singular)
τὼ θέρει (dual nominative)
θέρεε (dual nominative)
τᾰ̀ θέρεᾰ (nominative plural)
τοῦ θέρεος (genitive singular)
θέρευς (genitive singular)
τοῖν θερέοιν (dual genitive)
τῶν θερέων (genitive plural)
τῷ θέρει (dative singular)
θέρεῐ̈ (dative singular)
τοῖν θερέοιν (dative dual)
τοῖσῐ (dative plural)
τοῖσῐν θέρεσῐ (dative plural)
θέρεσῐν (dative plural)
toîsi théresi (dative plural)
toîsi théresin (dative plural)
toîsini (dative plural)
toîsinin (dative plural)
τὸ θέρος (accusative singular)
τὼ θέρει (accusative dual)
θέρεε (accusative dual)
τᾰ̀ θέρεᾰ (accusative plural)
θέρος (singular vocative)
θέρει (dual vocative)
θέρεε (dual vocative)
θέρεᾰ (plural vocative)
θέρος (nominative singular)
θέρει (dual nominative)
θέρεε (dual nominative)
θέρεᾰ (nominative plural)
θέρεος (genitive singular)
θέρευς (genitive singular)
θερέοιν (dual genitive)
θερέων (genitive plural)
θέρει (dative singular)
θέρεῐ̈ (dative singular)
θερέοιν (dative dual)
θέρεσῐ (dative plural)
θέρεσῐν (dative plural)
théresi (dative plural)
théresin (dative plural)
θέρος (accusative singular)
θέρει (accusative dual)
θέρεε (accusative dual)
θέρεᾰ (accusative plural)
θέρος (singular vocative)
θέρει (dual vocative)
θέρεε (dual vocative)
θέρεᾰ (plural vocative)

From Proto-Hellenic *kʷʰéros, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéros (“heat; warm weather”, from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”) + *-os (action noun suffix)).


Srećna Nova godina

sh-phrase

Srȅćna Nȍva gȍdina! (Cyrillic spelling Сре̏ћна Но̏ва го̏дина!)

Srȅćna Nȍva gȍdina! (canonical)
Сре̏ћна Но̏ва го̏дина! (Cyrillic)


Hristos vaskrse

Hristos vaskrse (Cyrillic spelling Христос васкрсе)

Христос васкрсе (Cyrillic)


The ’80s were fun, at least for me. With great pride, I can now claim to have been the first mainstream critic on the mailing list of SST Records, writing, of their initial Black Flag issue, "This record, a relentless wall of noise that is never less than noisy, sounds unlike anything else I've heard this year."

2004, Neal Pollack, Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock and Roll Novel, page 205:

teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties

Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties


On the Alxa Plateau of Inner Mongolia, Gaxun Nur Lake (262 km²) dried in the 1970s and the Sogo Nur Lake in the 1980s.

2008, Robert Jellison, William D. Williams, Brian Timms, Javier Alcocer, Nikolay V. Aladin, “Salt lakes: values, threats and future”, in Nicholas V. C. Polunin, editor, Aquatic Ecosystems: Trends and Global Prospects, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99, column 2:

Mr. Zhang said a main goal of moving people from Xihaigu was to turn the hills green, with a parallel planting program. More than two million acres have been converted to forest and pasture land, he said, citing the Guyuan area, where forest coverage was 22 percent last year, up from 4 percent in the 1980s.

2016 October 25, Edward Wong, “Resettling China’s ‘Ecological Migrants’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-10-27, World:

The decade beginning in 1980 and ending in 1989.


solar calendar

A calendar based on the movement of the Earth around the Sun, which defines the year. Dates indicate the position of the Earth during this revolution.

সৌর বর্ষপঞ্জি

a calendar based on the movement of the Earth around the Sun


Prominent in the 1980s and 1990s for the part it played in Postmodernism and then in Deconstruction, in the 2000s AD has leveraged a depth and level of scrutiny not currently offered elsewhere in the design press.

2008, Julieanna Preston, Interior Atmospheres, Academy Press, →ISBN:

When asked about how many planes Epstein owned […] [Maxwell] answered "in the '90s he had one plane and at some point in the 2000s he had two planes," demonstrating a clear understanding of how decades are described.

2021 February 5, Jacob Shamsian, “Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers say an indictment should be thrown out because she wasn't sure what 'sexual activities' meant during a deposition”, in Insider:

The decade that began on January 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2009.


Valentine's Day

en-proper noun

Valentine's Day (plural Valentine's Days)

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On the long time line of the so-human search for a profound and lasting happiness, many of us will still have our romances. Of the senses and the mind. We will have our spring dances, our candlelight dinners, our Valentine’s Days, our ear when we need to talk, our moonlit hand-holdings, our horizon gazings. our car rides in sensual silence.

1994, Wynton Marsalis, Frank Stewart, Sweet Swing Blues on the Road, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 90:

Valentine’s Day is a time for love and affection. I do not know anyone who wants to spend Valentine’s Day alone. I love to spend my Valentine’s Days with the person I am dating or my family. I love buying and giving gifts during this holiday but the most important thing is being with the people I care about and love. [F, Diary]

2006, Cornelia Pechmann, Linda L. Price, editors, ACR in San Antonio 2005 (Advances in Consumer Research; XXXIII), Association for Consumer Research, →ISBN, page 361, column 1:

The idea of matching outfits suddenly seems like a great way to show our compatibility, so we eat breakfast in heart-covered pajamas, but this willingness to embarrass ourselves for amour is what makes our Valentine’s Days truly romantic.

2013, Mike Bender, Doug Chernack, “Valentine’s Day”, in Awkward Family Holiday Photos, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 13:

Saint Valentine's Day
Saint Valentine's Day


Flag Day

A day commemorating the adoption of a national flag.

(Australia) September 3, for the first flying of the Australian flag in 1901, Australian National Flag Day.

Australian National Flag Day
Australian National Flag Day

(Canada) February 15, for the inauguration of the Canadian flag in 1965, National Flag of Canada Day.

National Flag of Canada Day
National Flag of Canada Day

(US) June 14, for the adoption of the US flag in 1777.


Hallowmas

Short for All-hallows' mass (“All-saints' mass”), ultimately continuing Old English ealra hālgena mæsse (literally “All Saints' mass”), equivalent to hallow (“saint”) + -mas.

inh

Pompey: And, I beseech you look into Master Froth here, / sir; a man of fourscore pound a year, whose father died / at Hallowmas. Was't not at Hallowmas, Master Froth?

c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 2, scene 1:


Saint Valentine's Day

Tomorrow is S. Valentines day, all in the morning betime, / And I a Maid at your Window, to be your Valentine.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 273:

A holiday in remembrance of Saint Valentine, February 14th, celebrated by sending cards or similar tokens of love.

عِيد اَلْحُبّ m (ʕīd al-ḥubb, literally “festival of love”)

день влюблённых m (denʹ vljubljónnyx, literally “lovers' day”)


Hristos se rodi

sh-phrase

Hristos se rodi (Cyrillic spelling Христос се роди)

Христос се роди (Cyrillic)


vaistinu se rodi

vaistinu se rodi (Cyrillic spelling ваистину се роди)

ваистину се роди (Cyrillic)

Literally, “It is true, he has been born”.

lit

(Serbia) Merry Christmas (reply to greeting)


ваистину се роди

sh-phrase

ваистину се роди

ваистину се роди (Latin spelling vaistinu se rodi)


Srećan Božić

Srećan Božić (Cyrillic spelling Срећан Божић)

Срећан Божић (Cyrillic)


Христос се роди

Христос се роди

Христос се роди (Latin spelling Hristos se rodi)

Кад се са неким пољуби, обавезно изговори: „Мир божи, нека буде срећан Божић, Христос се роди“, а онај са којим се љуби одговара: „Ваистину се роди!“ Полажајник затим дарује бадњак новцем, и то обично сребрним.
Kad se sa nekim poljubi, obavezno izgovori: „Mir boži, neka bude srećan Božić, Hristos se rodi“, a onaj sa kojim se ljubi odgovara: „Vaistinu se rodi!“ Polažajnik zatim daruje badnjak novcem, i to obično srebrnim.

1986, Гласник Етнографског музеја у Београду [Bulletin of the Ethnographic Museum of Belgrade], Vol. 50, p. 255

When you and someone else have kissed each other, without fail say: “The peace of God [be with you], may your Christmas be happy, Christ is born”, and he whom you kiss replies: “Indeed he is born!” The one who has come first into the house then endows the Yule log with money, and this usually of silver.


Срећан Божић

Срећан Божић

Срећан Божић (Latin spelling Srećan Božić)


Yule log

A large log traditionally burned on Christmas Eve.


Yuletide

en-noun

Yuletide (countable and uncountable, plural Yuletides)

Though attested late (c. 1475), probably dates back to Old English *ġēoltīd (literally “Christmas season”). See there for more; also Yule and tide.

inh

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, / Fa la la la la la la la la! / 'Tis the season to be jolly, / Fa la la la la la la la la! / Don we now our gay apparel, / Fa la la la la la la la la! / Troll the ancient yuletide carol, / Fa la la la la la la la la!

1862, modified from Thomas Oliphant's original, “Deck the Halls”, in Jerry Snyder’s Easy Chord Christmas Guitar Book, Miami Beach, Fla.: Hansen House, published [19—?], →OCLC, page 17:

What did the first locked drawer contain? […] a Yuletide card, bearing on it a pictorial representation of a parasitic plant, the legend Mizpah, the date Xmas 1892, the name of the senders: from Mr and Mrs M. Comerford, the versicle: May this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome glee: […]

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 17: Ithaca]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 673:

It's Christmas at ground zero / Just seconds left to go / I'll duck and cover / With my Yuletide lover / Underneath the mistletoe

1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:

(dated) The period around Christmas; the Christmas season, Christmastime; specifically, Christmas itself.


the 1400s or 15th century; the quattrocento


Lammastide

(Christianity) The religious festival of Lammas.


Harvest Festival

en-noun

Harvest Festival (plural Harvest Festivals)

(UK) church festival celebrating the harvest, held at the end of September or the beginning of October


Sexagesima

from Latin sexagesima dies, from the feminine of sexagesimus '60th' + dies 'day'

(Christianity) In the Christian calendar the Sunday two weeks before Lent, eight before Easter Sunday.


Septuagesima

From Latin septuagesima dies (“70th day”).

(Christianity) A Sunday in the Christian calendar nine weeks before Easter Sunday.


Quinquagesima

From Medieval Latin quinquagesima dies (“50th day”).

bor

(Christianity) A moveable feast in the Christian calendar on the Sunday 49 days before Easter Sunday (50 days counting inclusively).


Quinquagesima

de-noun

f.gen:-:Quinquagesimä􂀿especially without an article􂁀.sg

Quinquagesima f (genitive Quinquagesima or (especially without an article) Quinquagesimä, no plural)

Quinquagesima (genitive)
Quinquagesimä (especially genitive)
Quinquagesima (nominative singular)
Quinquagesima (genitive singular)
Quinquagesimä (genitive singular)
Quinquagesima (dative singular)
Quinquagesima (accusative singular)

(obsolete) a 50-day period between Easter and Pentecost


Sukkot

he-m

סוכות / סֻכּוֹת (sukót)

(Judaism) An ancient biblical / Israelite / Jewish festival lasting seven days, celebrating the autumn harvest and commemorating the passage through the wilderness: observed from the 15th day to the 21st day of the month of Tishrei (Tishri).


Sukkot

de-proper noun

Sukkot n (proper noun, strong, genitive Sukkot, plural Sukkot)

Sukkot (genitive)
Sukkot (plural)
Sukkot (nominative singular)
Sukkot (definite nominative plural)
Sukkot (genitive singular)
Sukkot (definite genitive plural)
Sukkot (dative singular)
Sukkot (dative definite plural)
Sukkot (accusative singular)
Sukkot (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed from Hebrew סוכות / סֻכּוֹת (sukkōṯ).

he-m

סוכות / סֻכּוֹת (sukkōṯ)

Feast of Tabernacles
Feast of Tabernacles

(Judaism, chiefly in the plural) Sukkot, Feast of Tabernacles, Feast of Booths


Sukkot

Sukkot (nominative singular)
Sukkotu (genitive singular)
Sukkotowi (dative singular)
Sukkot (accusative singular)
Sukkotem (instrumental singular)
Sukkocie (locative singular)
Sukkocie (singular vocative)

(Judaism) Sukkot (ancient biblical / Israelite / Jewish festival lasting seven days, celebrating the autumn harvest and commemorating the passage through the wilderness: observed from the 15th day to the 21 day of the month of Tishrei (Tishri))


מועד

he-noun

מוֹעֵד • (mo'éd) m (plural indefinite מוֹעֲדִים, singular construct מוֹעֵד־, plural construct מוֹעֲדֵי־)

מוֹעֵד (canonical)
mo'éd (romanization)
מוֹעֲדִים (indefinite plural)
מוֹעֵד־ (construct singular)
מוֹעֲדֵי־ (construct plural)

→ Judeo-Italian: mongedde

→ Judeo-Tat: miⱨid

→ Ladino: moed, mued

Root
 י־ע־ד (y-ʿ-d)
Compare Arabic مَوْعِد (mawʕid, “appointment, appointed time”).

cog

appointed or agreed-upon time
appointment

appointed or agreed-upon time
fixed time or season

appointed or agreed-upon time
festival, solemn feast


Mrs. Claus

A relatively new gala, the Celebrate Santa Convention boasts a sea of Santas, Mrs. Clauses, elves, and reindeers, […]

2011, Kristin Luna, Tennessee Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 167:

In normal years, he runs a roving school for Santas and Mmes. Claus and supplies a workforce of bearded men to malls and corporate events around the country. […] He led a neighborhood tree-lighting in a blue surgical mask with a Mrs. Claus friend near his apartment in Upper Manhattan, and a few buddies volunteered for a socially distanced Christmas parade.

2020 December 25, Emma Green, “The Christmas Crisis”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2020-12-25:

“Why do I get the feeling that ‘we’ includes me?” I said warily. “Of course it includes you. You’re Mrs. Claus.” She reconsidered. “One of the Mrs. Clauses, at any rate. I signed you up for two shifts and some cookies. Surely that’s not too much to ask?”

2021, Liz Ireland, Mrs. Claus and the Halloween Homicide, Kensington Books, →ISBN:

In 1937, a Michigan school was established in Midland, and it has been training Santas and Mrs. Clauses for eighty-five years.

2022, Bill Loomis, Christmas in Detroit, Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, →ISBN, page 67:


happy holidays

In the United States people say Happy Holidays to include all people on the earth: the Jewish people Celebrating Hanukah, Africans celebrating Kwanza, Middle Eastern people celebrating Eid, Christians celebrating Christmas, […]

2009, Ruben Santos Claveria, Holiday Songs and Kisses: Christmas Songs And other Poems:

Madeleine Mayfair, What Should I Write? 101 Holiday Wishes for Greeting Cards
Season's greetings and happy holidays!

(Canada, US, Philippines) A greeting used during the Christmas and winter holiday season to recognize the celebration of many holidays, sometimes starting with Thanksgiving and including Hanukkah, the winter solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year's Day.


Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

en-proper noun

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (plural Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers (plural)

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In the yards of the houses, the pink flamingos were eclipsed by huge plastic Santa Clauses and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers, their red noses tinting the shadows on the snow rose red, and on the roof ridges of every other house, Santa Claus and his sleigh had landed weeks earlier.

1989, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Buffalo Afternoon, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 513:

The only buildings on the street across from the Yellow Panda were an abandoned warehouse and a lonely souvenir stand, also closed until tourist season, its carved Smokey the Bears and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers looking like lost Christmas decorations in the rain.

1997, Roger L[ichtenberg] Simon, The Lost Coast, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 194:

Window cling-ons are the same kind you see at Christmas time, with cute Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers and Frosty the Snow Mans on them.

2003, Tiffany Lambert, Restaurant Promotion and Publicity: For Just a Few Dollars a Day, Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:

Light posts, storefronts and other businesses were lined with garlands of silver, gold, green and red; as well as the occasional Santa Claus and more than a few Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers.

2008, William Pepper, In the St. Nick of Time, Carnival of Glee Creations, →ISBN, page 10:

These days, you see more of those giant inflatable Frosty the Snowmen and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers.

2014, Greg Laurie, Red: The Color of Christmas, 15 Favorite Christmas Messages, Allen David Books, →ISBN, page 307:

Good job you don’t have kids, mate. You’d go mad this time of year with all the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers going on.

2019, Alison Roberts, Single Dad in Her Stocking, Harlequin, →ISBN:

A legendary reindeer with a nose that glows red, the subject of a comic Christmas song; often added among Santa Claus's reindeer as the leading one.

ルドルフ赤鼻のトナカイ

ルドルフあかはなのトナカイ


Vánoce

vánoční (adjective)
Vánoce (nominative plural)
Vánoc (genitive plural)
Vánocům (dative plural)
Vánoce (accusative plural)
Vánoce (plural vocative)
Vánocích (locative plural)
Vánocemi (instrumental plural)
Vánoci (instrumental plural)

Veselé Vánoce.

Veselé Vánoce a šťastný nový rok.


havîn

havîn (definite feminine nominative singular)
havîn (definite feminine nominative plural)
havîna (construct definite feminine singular)
havînên (construct definite feminine plural)
havînê (definite feminine oblique singular)
havînan (definite feminine oblique plural)
wê havînê (definite demonstrative feminine oblique singular)
wan havînan (definite demonstrative feminine oblique plural)
havînê (definite feminine singular vocative)
havînino (definite feminine plural vocative)
havînek (feminine indefinite nominative singular)
havînin (feminine indefinite nominative plural)
havîneke (construct feminine indefinite singular)
havînine (construct feminine indefinite plural)
havînekê (feminine indefinite oblique singular)
havîninan (feminine indefinite oblique plural)

From an earlier *samîn, from Proto-Indo-European *semh₂- (“year”). Compare English summer.


Fronleichnam

de-noun

Fronleichnam m (strong, genitive Fronleichnams, no plural)

Fronleichnams (genitive)
Fronleichnam (nominative singular)
Fronleichnams (genitive singular)
Fronleichnam (dative singular)
Fronleichnam (accusative singular)

From Middle High German vrōnlīcham, from Old High German vrōn (genitive singular of vrō (“lord”), from Proto-Germanic *frawjô) + līhhamo (“body”) (from *līkahamô).


vernal

en-adj

vernal (comparative more vernal, superlative most vernal)

more vernal (comparative)
most vernal (superlative)

PIE word
 *wósr̥
From Latin vernālis (“(rare) of or pertaining to spring; vernal”), from vērnus (“of or pertaining to spring; vernal”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship). Vērnus is derived from vēr (“season of spring”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”)) + -nus (suffix forming adjectives). The English word is cognate with Old French vernal (modern French vernal), Italian vernale (“pertaining to spring; vernal”), Occitan vernal, Portuguese vernal (“pertaining to spring; vernal”), Spanish vernal (“pertaining to spring; vernal”).

cog

When after the long vernal day of life, / Enamour'd more, as more remembrance ſwells / With many a proof of recollected love, / Together down they [the seasons] ſink in ſocial ſleep; [...]

a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 44, lines 1168–1171:

Ah me! too ſwiftly fleets our vernal bloom! / Loſt to our wonted friendſhip, loſt to joy! / Soon may thy breaſt the cordial wiſh reſume, / Ere wintry doubt its tender warmth deſtroy.

1764, William Shenstone, “Elegy XIII. To a Friend, on Some Slight Occasion Estranged from Him.”, in The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq; Most of which Were Never before Printed. In Two Volumes. […], volume I, London: Printed for R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 45:

Art thou a child of tears, / Cradled in care and woe? / And seems it hard thy vernal years / Few vernal joys can shew?

1827, [John Keble], “The Circumcision of Christ”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 47:

(figuratively) Having characteristics like spring; fresh, young, youthful.

свеж

having characteristics like spring — see also fresh, youthful


springtime

en-noun

springtime (countable and uncountable, plural springtimes)

The season of spring, between winter and summer.


Bastille Day

The French national holiday celebrated on 14 July each year. It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the Fête de la Fédération was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French "nation".


Cinco de Mayo

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Borrowed from Spanish cinco de mayo (“fifth of May”).

A national celebration in Mexico, commemorating the victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza over the French expeditionary forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, also celebrated widely by immigrants living in the United States.


spring break

spring break (countable and uncountable, plural spring breaks)

“We are on the edge of an AI surge that will make the dotcom boom look like spring break,” says Boris Feldman, co-head of Freshfield's global tech practice, who advises multiple “magnificent seven” tech companies.

2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, quoting Boris Feldman, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:

A time of vacation from school that occurs during the spring.


wintertime

wintertime (countable and uncountable, plural wintertimes)

The season of winter, between autumn and spring.


Yom Kippur

/ˌjɒm kɪˈpʊə/

/ˌjəʊm kɪˈpʊə/

/ˌjəʊm ˈkɪpə/

/ˌjɔm kɪˈpʊɹ/

/ˌjɑm kɪˈpʊɹ/

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From Hebrew יוֹם כִּיפּוּר (yom kipúr, literally “Day of Atonement”).

bor

יוֹם כִּיפּוּר

(Judaism) A particular Jewish holiday, the day of atonement, falling on the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei.


year of our Lord

en-noun

year of our Lord (plural years of our Lord)

AC

antonym(s) of “of the Common/Christian Era”

And for the continuing and preſerving the Calendar or Method of Reckoning, and computing the Days of the Year in the ſame regular Courſe, as near as may be, in all Times coming; be it further enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That the ſeveral Years of our Lord, One thouſand eight hundred, One thouſand nine hundred, Two thouſand one hundred, Two thouſand two hundred, Two thouſand three hundred, or any other Hundredth Years of our Lord, which ſhall happen in Time to come, except only every Fourth hundredth Year of our Lord, whereof the Year of our Lord Two thouſand ſhall be the Firſt, ſhall not be eſteemed or taken to be Biſſextile or Leap Years, but ſhall be taken to be common Years, conſiſting of Three hundred and ſixty five Days, and no more; and that the Years of our Lord, Two thouſand eight hundred, and every other Fourth hundredth Year of our Lord, from the ſaid Year of our Lord Two Thouſand incluſive, and alſo all other Years of our Lord, which by the preſent Supputation are eſteemed to be Biſſextile, or Leap Years, ſhall for the future, and in all Times to come be eſteemed and taken to be Biſſextile or Leap Years, conſiſting of Three hundred and ſixty ſix Days, in the ſame Sort and Manner as is now uſed with reſpect to every Fourth Year of our Lord.

1751, “An Act for regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for correcting the Calendar now in Use”, in Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, Vicesimo-Quarto. […], Edinburgh: […] the Assigns of Robert Freebairn […], pages 7–8:

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, / I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the National Archives and Records Administration to be affixed. / DONE at the City of Washington this 18th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-two.

1992, certification of the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, (image):

Born in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty on September 9, Jeremy had many wonderful friends and family, which sit here with us today.

2007, Tom Thunderhorse, Charlie Goodbear, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 168:

(Christianity) A year of the Common Era/Christian Era; anno Domini; numbered from the once estimated first year for the birth of Jesus Christ.


Anno Domini

Borrowed from Medieval Latin annō Dominī (“in the year of the Lord”) from the word annō (“in the year”) the ablative of annus (“year”) + Dominī (“of the Lord”) the genitive of Dominus (“the Lord”).

bor

In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620.

1620, Mayflower Compact, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

The scene was Mr. Cruncher’s private lodging in Hanging-sword-alley, Whitefriars: the time, half-past seven of the clock on a windy March morning, Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty.

1859, Charles Dickens, “Book the Second”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

In the year of our Lord (often abbreviated A.D. or AD).

après Jésus-Christ (abbr. après JC, ap. J.-C., ap. JC)

después de Jesucristo (abbr. d. de J.C.)


jubilee

en-noun

jubilee (countable and uncountable, plural jubilees)

/ˌd͡ʒuːbɪˈliː/

senses 3.3 and 3.4 when spelled jubile, obsolete

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

From Late Middle English jubile [and other forms], from Middle French jubile, from Old French jubilee, jubileus (modern French jubilé), from Late Latin iūbilaeus (adjective, also treated as a noun), from Ancient Greek ἰωβηλαῖος (iōbēlaîos, “of a jubilee”), from ἰώβηλος (iṓbēlos, “jubilee”) + -ῐος (-ios, suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Ἰώβηλος (Iṓbēlos) is derived from Hebrew יוֹבֵל (yōḇēl, “ram, trumpet made from a ram’s horn; jubilee”) (because a ram’s horn trumpet was originally used to proclaim the event; see Leviticus 25:9), influenced by Latin iūbilum (“a cry, a shout”) and iūbilō (“to cheer, shout or sing joyfully”). Cognate with Italian giubileo, Spanish jubileo.

der

(Roman Catholicism) A special year (originally held every hundred years, then at more frequent intervals, and now declarable by the Pope at any time and also for periods less than a year) in which plenary indulgences and remission from sin can be granted upon making a pilgrimage to Rome or other designated churches.

禧年

(Roman Catholicism) special year in which plenary indulgences and remission from sin can be granted upon making a pilgrimage

[T]hough it be in the povver of the vveakeſt arme to take avvay life, it is not in the ſtrongeſt to deprive us of death: […] the firſt day of our Jubilee is death; the Devill hath therefore failed of his deſires; vvee are happier vvith death than vve ſhould have been vvithout it: there is no miſery but in himſelfe vvhere there is no end of miſery: […]

1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “The First Part”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC, section 44, page 94:

"Hurrah! hurrah! we bring the Jubilee! / Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!" / So we sung the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, / While we were marching through Georgia.

1865 (date written), [Henry Clay Work], “Marching through Georgia”, in Beadle’s Dime Song Book […], number 17, New York, N.Y.: Beadle and Company, […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 57:

The chains of that great power we broke; / The burdened captives were set free, / For Lincoln held the pen, whose stroke / Proclaimed, the year of jubilee.

1890, L[evi] C. McKinstry, “[Lincoln’s White Name]”, in A Poetic Offering to John Greenleaf Whittier […], Haverhill, Mass.: L. C. McKinstry, →OCLC, page 101:

(countable) A time for release or restitution.

But you firſt ſhall taſte / The bounty of our Court, with royall Preſents / Both to the Duke your maſter, and the Princeſſe; / It done, prepare we for this great ſolemnity, / Of Hymeneall Iubilies.

1634, Thomas Heywood, “A Pleasant Comedy, Called A Mayden-head Well Lost. […]”, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood […], volume IV, London: John Pearson […], published 1874, →OCLC, Act III, page 137:

(countable) A time of celebration or rejoicing.


Diwali

Borrowed from Hindi दिवाली (divālī), from Sanskrit दीपावलि (dīpāvali, literally “row of lights”), from दीप (dīpa, “light”) + आवलि (āvali, “series, line, row”). Doublet of Deepavali.

(Hinduism) An annual festival of light, observed during several days in October and November.

Deepawali

more often used in Malaysia and Singapore

Kali Puja

more often used in Bangladesh, Bengal, and Odisha


jól

fo-noun

jól n pl (plurale tantum, genitive plural jóla)

jóla (genitive plural)
jól (indefinite nominative plural)
jólini (definite nominative plural)
jól (accusative indefinite plural)
jólini (accusative definite plural)
jólum (dative indefinite plural)
jólunum (dative definite plural)
jóla (genitive indefinite plural)
jólanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse jól, cognate with Danish, Norwegian, Swedish jul, Icelandic jól, Old English geōl and English Yule, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *yekə- (“joke, play”).


jól

is-noun

jól n pl (plural only, genitive plural jóla)

jóla (genitive plural)
jól (indefinite nominative plural)
jólin (definite nominative plural)
jól (accusative indefinite plural)
jólin (accusative definite plural)
jólum (dative indefinite plural)
jólunum (dative definite plural)
jóla (genitive indefinite plural)
jólanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse jól, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *yekə- (“joke, play”).


pace egg

A hard-boiled coloured egg traditionally made at Easter, often given to relatives and friends as a token of goodwill. It was traditional to jarp with the eggs before eating them.

County Durham website dedicated to preservation of dialect terms


Holy Saturday

The Saturday immediately after Good Friday and before Easter.

lankalauantai

the Saturday immediately after Good Friday


pysanka

Borrowed from Ukrainian пи́санка (pýsanka), from писа́ти (pysáty, “to write”), referring to writing on an egg with a stylus in a wax-resist dyeing process, from Proto-Slavic *pьsati, related to *pьstrъ (“feathered”), + feminine ending -ка (-ka).

A hand-decorated Ukrainian Easter egg with intricate designs.

пі́санка

Easter egg decorated with intricate designs


yahrzeit

PIE word
 *yóh₁r̥
Borrowed from Yiddish יאָרצײַט (yortsayt), from Middle High German jārzīt (“anniversary; Christian commemoration of a person’s death”); from Middle High German jār (“year”) (from Old High German jār (“year”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yéh₁n- (“year”)) + Middle High German zīt (“time”) (from Old High German zīt (“time”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dī- (“time”)). The Yiddish word is cognate with German Jahreszeit (“season”), which heavily influenced the spelling and pronunciation once the word was borrowed into English. Doublet of yeartide.

der

"Yahrzeit" (year's time) is the anniversary of the parent's death. On the evening preceding, a light is kindled in the house, and kept burning until the following sundown. Synagogue service in the morning and evening is also attended, and the kaddish recited. "Nahala" (inheritance) is the poetic equivalent of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews for the Teutonic Yahrzeit.

1892 February, Richard Wheatley, “The Jews in New York.—II.”, in The Century Illustrated Magazine, volume XLIII, number 4, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, page 516:

Sad to say, the Yahrzeit of every-Jew is fading away from the memory of the average Jew in America.

1930 August 1, Leon Spitz, “Tisha b’Ab—The yahrzeit of every Jew”, in The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, Montreal, Que.: The Eagle Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

The yahrzeit is here, and the least lachrymose country on earth is devising its rituals of commemoration.

2002 September 2, Leon Wieseltier, “A Year Later”, in Peter Beinart, editor, The New Republic, New York, N.Y.: The Republic Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

Let's remember Hank Greenberg's yahrzeit, the 30th of Av, which falls this year on Sept. 3.

2016 August 10, Irwin Cohen, “Hank Greenberg’s 30th yahrzeit”, in The Jewish Press, New York, N.Y.: The Jewish Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-13:

(Judaism) The anniversary of a person's death, usually a parent's, often marked by the lighting of a memorial candle and other rituals.

נַחֲלָה

(Judaism) anniversary of a person's death


autumnal

en-adj

autumnal (comparative more autumnal, superlative most autumnal)

more autumnal (comparative)
most autumnal (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin autumnāl(is). By surface analysis, autumn + -al.


twenties

My roommates said they were hosting a party inspired by the twenties which I assumed meant the 1920s but it turned out the theme was the 1120s BCE.

The decade of the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s, etc.


sixties

Alternative letter-case form of Sixties (The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.)


seventies

Our readers — and contributors — are apt to elect a good deal according to years. The seventies and eighties, we may suppose, are concerned for the large educational and cultural interests of their Alma Mater; the nineties are deep in the practical and business activities; the noughties are not naughty, but still young enough to sport a fantastic costume at reunion and let the college wag as it will; the oneties are the really wise as to what the college ought to be, especially on its athletic side, but as contributors modest.

1914, Amherst College, Amherst Graduates' Quarterly, volume 4, page 6:

'The Bride' [a snowdrop variety], found in the early Seventies at Foxcote Farm near Cheltenham, was his first discovery. It's a poculiform (cup-shaped) G. elwesii with six pure white petals of the same length.

2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:


thirties

It says here on your resume that your last job was as a streetcorner apple vendor―that's quite a thirties profession!

The Road to Glory, while not the best, was likewise not the least of the thirties films which may justly be called "anti-war" in both intent and execution.

1975, Michael T. Isenberg, “An Ambiguous Pacifism: A Retrospective on World War I Films, 1930–1938”, in Journal of Popular Film, volume 4, number 2, →DOI, page 109:

A decade starting with the year xx30, most usually the decade from 1930 to 1939.

He looked to be in his thirties.

The decade of one's life from age 30 through age 39.


thirties

Yearslong droughts? How thirties!

'Something light and airy for this last burst of summer, non?' said Madame, and held up a dress in creamy pink crêpe-de-Chine. 'Very thirties, n'est-ce pas? I adore this fabric—so fluid, so graceful.'

1990, Catherine George, Come Back to Me, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 58:

From or evoking the 31st through 40th years of a century (chiefly the 1930s).


eighties

1914, Amherst College, “Amherst graduates' quarterly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 4, page 6:

1919, Harry Hamilton Johnston, The Gay-Dombeys: A Novel, Macmillan, page 172,
He and his clever staff of minor blackguards exploited to the full every weakness and caries in the London Society of the 'eighties, 'nineties, and 'oughts.


quarter-day

1908, It is late in March, so quarter-day is at hand. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge’ (Norton 2005, p. 1239)

(British) Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due.


獅子

獅子 (canonical)
獅子 (canonical)
shishi (romanization)

From Middle Chinese 獅子 (MC srij tsiX, literally “lion + (diminutive suffix)”)

ltc-l

除夜の獅子 除夜の獅子#Japanese

short for 除夜の獅子 (joya no shishi, “New Year's lion”), a person dressed in costume as for a lion dance who goes door to door begging on New Year's Eve


nineties

the nineties (canonical plural singular)

The line was doubled in the nineties and Hillfoot station added for suburbanites in 1900.

1959 October, G. H. Robin, “Railways to Helensburgh—a pre-electrification prospect”, in Trains Illustated, page 541:

While PSB [public service broadcasting] has always been subject to multiple influences there is no question that the nineties was a period of massive structural transformation.

2001, Gay Hawkins, “The ABC and Rhetorics of Choice”, in Tony Bennett, David Carter, editors, Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 176:


師走

師走 (canonical)
shiwasu (romanization)
sifasu (romanization)
しはす (hiragana historical)

/sipasu/ → /ɕifasu/ → /ɕiwasu/
Shift from shihasu, ancient sipasu (see below).

本 乎美名古乃左衣八 末 志毛月志波須乃 加伊古本千

Tsuchihashi, Yutaka with Jin'ichi Konishi, Ichinosuke Takagi (1957) Kodai Kayōshū, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

(archaic) the twelfth month of the lunar calendar

(poetic) the month of preparation for the new year: December


師走

師走 (canonical)
Shiwasu (romanization)
Sifasu (romanization)
しはす (hiragana historical)


五月

/u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/ŋ̍¹³ jyːt̚²/

/ŋ̍³¹ ŋi̯et̚⁵/

/ŋ̍³¹ ŋi̯at̚⁵/

/n̩³¹ ŋiat̚⁵/

/ŋu⁴² ŋyɛ⁴²/

/ŋu²⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ŋuoʔ⁵/

/ɡɔ³³⁻²² ɡəʔ³⁵/

/ɡɔ²² ɡəʔ²⁴/

/ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ ɡeʔ⁴³/

/ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ ɡeʔ⁴/

/ɡɔ³³⁻¹¹ ɡeʔ⁴/

/ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ ɡueʔ¹²¹/

/ɡɔ³³⁻²¹ ɡueʔ⁴/

/ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ ɡueʔ⁴³/

/ɡɔ²¹ ɡueʔ⁴/

/ɡɔ³³⁻¹¹ ɡueʔ⁴/

/ɡɔ³³⁻²² ɡeʔ²⁴/

/ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ ɡəʔ⁴³/

/ɡɔ²²⁻¹² ɡəʔ⁵⁴/

/ɡɔ³³⁻²¹ ɡue³³/

/ŋou³⁵⁻¹¹ ɡueʔ⁴/

/ŋ̍²² ɦyɪʔ⁴⁴/

/u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/ŋ̍¹³ jyːt̚²/

/ŋ̍³¹ ŋi̯et̚⁵/

/ŋ̍³¹ ŋi̯at̚⁵/

/n̩³¹ ŋiat̚⁵/

/ŋu⁴² ŋyɛ⁴²/

/ŋu²⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ŋuoʔ⁵/

/ɡɔ³³⁻²² ɡəʔ³⁵/

/ɡɔ²² ɡəʔ²⁴/

/ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ ɡeʔ⁴³/

/ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ ɡeʔ⁴/

/ɡɔ³³⁻¹¹ ɡeʔ⁴/

/ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ ɡueʔ¹²¹/

/ɡɔ³³⁻²¹ ɡueʔ⁴/

/ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ ɡueʔ⁴³/

/ɡɔ²¹ ɡueʔ⁴/

/ɡɔ³³⁻¹¹ ɡueʔ⁴/

/ɡɔ³³⁻²² ɡeʔ²⁴/

/ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ ɡəʔ⁴³/

/ɡɔ²²⁻¹² ɡəʔ⁵⁴/

/ɡɔ³³⁻²¹ ɡue³³/

/ŋou³⁵⁻¹¹ ɡueʔ⁴/

/ŋ̍²² ɦyɪʔ⁴⁴/

modern name for the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar


正月

[ɕo̞ːɡa̠t͡sɨ]

From Middle Chinese 正月 (MC tsyeng ngjwot)


Pedro

Pedro (nominative singular)
Pedrot (nominative plural)
Pedron (genitive singular)
Pedroin (genitive plural)
Pedroloin (genitive plural)
Pedroa (partitive singular)
Pedroja (partitive plural)
Pedroloja (partitive plural)
Pedroo (illative singular)
Pedroi (illative plural)
Pedroloihe (illative plural)
Pedroos (inessive singular)
Pedrois (inessive plural)
Pedrolois (inessive plural)
Pedrost (elative singular)
Pedroist (elative plural)
Pedroloist (elative plural)
Pedrolle (allative singular)
Pedroille (allative plural)
Pedroloille (allative plural)
Pedrool (adessive singular)
Pedroil (adessive plural)
Pedroloil (adessive plural)
Pedrolt (ablative singular)
Pedroilt (ablative plural)
Pedroloilt (ablative plural)
Pedroks (singular translative)
Pedroiks (plural translative)
Pedroloiks (plural translative)
Pedronna (essive singular)
Pedroon (essive singular)
Pedroinna (essive plural)
Pedroloinna (essive plural)
Pedroin (essive plural)
Pedroloin (essive plural)
Pedront (exessive singular)
Pedroint (exessive plural)
Pedroloint (exessive plural)

a male given name, equivalent to English Peter


Shavuot

Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁבוּעוֹת (shavu'ót).

Major Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Simchat Torah, Succoth, Chanukah, Passover and Shavuot have been celebrated with Hebrew prayers and songs.

1971, United States Congress: Senate: Foreign Relations, Public Financing of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty

On the first day of Shavuot the Ten Commandments were explained to the people homiletically in the vernacular.

1975, Israel Zinberg, Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period:

(Judaism) A Jewish holiday that occurs in the spring, a harvest festival, also commemorating the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai.


Shavuot

bor

Hebrew שָׁבוּעוֹת

(Judaism) Shavuot; Pentecost (Jewish spring festival)


születésnap

születésnapok (plural)
születésnap (nominative singular)
születésnapok (nominative plural)
születésnapot (accusative singular)
születésnapokat (accusative plural)
születésnapnak (dative singular)
születésnapoknak (dative plural)
születésnappal (instrumental singular)
születésnapokkal (instrumental plural)
születésnapért (causal-final singular)
születésnapokért (causal-final plural)
születésnappá (singular translative)
születésnapokká (plural translative)
születésnapig (singular terminative)
születésnapokig (plural terminative)
születésnapként (essive-formal singular)
születésnapokként (essive-formal plural)
születésnapul (essive-modal singular)
születésnapban (inessive singular)
születésnapokban (inessive plural)
születésnapon (singular superessive)
születésnapokon (plural superessive)
születésnapnál (adessive singular)
születésnapoknál (adessive plural)
születésnapba (illative singular)
születésnapokba (illative plural)
születésnapra (singular sublative)
születésnapokra (plural sublative)
születésnaphoz (allative singular)
születésnapokhoz (allative plural)
születésnapból (elative singular)
születésnapokból (elative plural)
születésnapról (delative singular)
születésnapokról (delative plural)
születésnaptól (ablative singular)
születésnapoktól (ablative plural)
születésnapé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
születésnapoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
születésnapéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
születésnapokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
születésnapom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
születésnapjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
születésnapod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
születésnapjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
születésnapja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
születésnapjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
születésnapunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
születésnapjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
születésnapotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
születésnapjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
születésnapjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
születésnapjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


It was cocaine. I snorted Blow a couple of times. It was the perfect 80s drug after all.

2014, Laura Di Battista, If It Bleeds It leads, page 125:


The decade beginning in '90 and ending in '99 of a century.

the decade of the 1990s — see also nineties


Tens, written as a number but in plural form.

The tens, the second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc.


Rosh Hodesh

In the Jewish calendar, the first day of a new month.


Pentecoste

English: Pentecost

Scots: Penthicost

Inherited from Old English Pentecosten, from Latin Pentecoste, from Ancient Greek πεντηκοστή (pentēkostḗ).

Pentecost (specific day 49 days after Jesus' resurrection)


Christmassy

en-adj

Christmassy (comparative Christmassier, superlative Christmassiest)

Christmassier (comparative)
Christmassiest (superlative)

It is important to guard against any hint of a generalisation here that 'less Christmassy music' always accompanies a 'less Christmassy sentiment', and indeed Greg Lake's 'I Believe In Father Christmas' (1974) is proof that the converse is not […]

2008, Sheila Whiteley, Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 122:

Mark: That looks like a lovely turkey. I'm sorry I flew off the handle a bit.
Jeremy: That wasn't very Christmassy.
Mark: No, it wasn't. I apologise.

2010, Jesse Armstrong & Sam Bain, "Seasonal Beatings", Peep Show Series 7, Episode 5, Channel 4

They [Asian pears] are unquestionably Christmassy and festive, with their golden speckled skin.

2015 September 5, Mark Diacono, “In praise of the Asian pear”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 2015-09-12, page 1:

Resembling or having feelings of Christmas; festive.

nadalenc

resembling or having feelings of Christmas


Father's Day

A holiday in celebration of fatherhood, or to honor fathers, celebrated on the third Sunday of June in most of the world's countries. See Wikipedia:Father's Day:Dates.


Ostern

de-noun

Ostern n (strong, genitive Ostern, plural (chiefly without an article) Ostern)

Ostern (genitive)
Ostern (plural)
Ostern (nominative singular)
Ostern (definite nominative plural)
Ostern (genitive singular)
Ostern (definite genitive plural)
Ostern (dative singular)
Ostern (dative definite plural)
Ostern (accusative singular)
Ostern (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German ōsteren (plural of ōstere), from Old High German ōstarūn, a plural form of ōstara, from Proto-West Germanic *Austrā, from Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ. Compare English Easter.

frohe Ostern!

Die Veranlassung dazu war, daß als der König zu Worms einen Reichstag abhielt, wo er die Weihnachten und die Ostern des Jahres 790 feierte, Gesandte der Hunnen nach Worms kamen, welche über die von Carln verrückten Grenzen ihrer Länder klagten.

1833, Reihenfolge der österreichischen Regenten, von Carl dem Großen bis in die neuesten Zeiten. Erste Abtheilung. I. Band. I. Lieferung, Wien, page 21:


Pioneer Day

(US) A Utah state holiday celebrating the arrival of Mormon pioneers in what became Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1847.

день пионеров

Utah state holiday celebrating the arrival of Mormon pioneers in what would become Salt Lake City


Weihnachten

Weihnachten n (strong, genitive Weihnachten or Weihnachtens, plural Weihnachten)

Weihnachten (genitive)
Weihnachtens (genitive)
Weihnachten (plural)
Weihnachten (nominative singular)
Weihnachten (definite nominative plural)
Weihnachten (genitive singular)
Weihnachtens (genitive singular)
Weihnachten (definite genitive plural)
Weihnachten (dative singular)
Weihnachten (dative definite plural)
Weihnachten (accusative singular)
Weihnachten (accusative definite plural)
Weihnachten (definite nominative plural)
Weihnachten (definite genitive plural)
Weihnachten (dative definite plural)
Weihnachten (accusative definite plural)

[ˈväɪ̯ˌnäχtən]

From Middle High German wīhenahten (“Christmas”), from a dative plural ze den wīhen nahten (“in the holy nights”). Compare modern weihen (“to hallow”) and Nacht.
The oldest form (1170) is a singular diu wīhe naht (“the Holy Night”); the somewhat later plural is used to refer to the Christmas days and nights collectively. A relation with earlier heathen festivals is not endorsed by the etymological standard sources, though the possibility is admitted.
The term is a cognate with Low German Wiehnachten as well as Czech Vánoce and Slovak Vianoce.

inh

Es ist Weihnachten.

frohe Weihnachten! (fröhliche Weihnachten!)

Wir wünschen Ihnen frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr!

(formal) We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2016, Miriam Malik, Ein Drache zu Weihnachten und andere Weihnachtsgeschichten, story Ein Löwe zu Weihnachten

I already endured three Christmases, two Easters and carnival as well as countless child's birthdays.

Drei Weihnachten, zwei Ostern und Fasching sowie unzählige Kindergeburtstage hatte ich bereits überstanden.

(often in the plural, see usage notes) Christmas


pastiera

Borrowed from Italian, from pasta (“pasta, dough”).

A Neapolitan tart made from wheat, eggs, and ricotta, traditionally eaten at Easter.


pastiera

From pasta (“pasta, dough”) + -iera (“-er, -or”).


dail

(obsolete, astronomy) full moon; the phase of the moon when it is in opposition to the sun


Fourth of July

/ˌfɔːθ‿əv d͡ʒʊˈlaɪ/

/ˌfɔɹθ‿əv d͡ʒəˈlaɪ/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Fourth of July.wav

The proper noun is probably derived from the phrase “the fourth day of July”. The common noun is derived from the proper noun.

And the Ohio State Journal reports that “it was the hottest, quietest, and safest Fourth of July that Columbus ever had. The firecracker, the gun, and the cannon did not appear, and so there was not an injured or mangled boy or dead body anywhere yesterday as a result of powder patriotism. What a happy condition for the city to be in! What a marked difference from other days, after the Fourth. It seems that these ear splitting and soul stabbing Fourth of Julys are ended; and it is well; it is very well.”

1911 July 16, “A Saner Fourth”, in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume LXX, number 29, Chicago, Ill.: The Tribune Company, Metropolitan Section, page 4, column 3:

MARY went in to the frail little mother and told her the news through the cotton wool in both ears. Mrs. Davis had no difficulty hearing, so beautifully penetrating is good news. The relief in her pale little face “choked” Mary. / “My dear! You are an angel, there in that white robe! All you haven’t got is wings! If you knew—if anybody but me could know the tortures Fourth of Julys are to me.[…]”

1921 July 2, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “Do-As-You-Please Day: A Fourth of July Story”, in The Christian Herald […], volume 44, number 27, New York, N.Y.: Graham Patterson, page 469, column 1:

Our Fourth of Julys are sounding different, too. Come to one of our barbeques and you might hear “Praise the Lord and Pass the Metamucil” or that ol’ patriotic favorite “Let Eardrums Ring.”

2005, Martha Bolton, “Season’s Greetings”, in Growing Your Own Turtleneck… and Other Benefits of Aging, Bloomington, Minn.: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 98:

The national holiday of Independence Day in the United States, celebrated on the fourth day in July to mark the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain in 1776.


Martini

de-noun

Martini n (strong, genitive Martini, no plural)

Martini (genitive)
Martini (nominative singular)
Martini (genitive singular)
Martini (dative singular)
Martini (accusative singular)

Borrowed from Latin Martini, genitive of Latin Martinus (“Martin”).

(regional) Martinmas (feast day of St Martin of Tours)


Noël

→ Persian: نوئل (no'el)

Inherited from Middle French Noël, from Old French Noel, Naël, inherited from Vulgar Latin *notālis, from Latin nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birthday of the Lord”) with dissimilation of the first -a- to -o-. Doublet of natal.

inh

a male given name, equivalent to English Noel


tochtli

Central Nahuatl: tochtli

Morelos Nahuatl: tochtle

Pipil: tuchti

Andrews suggests a connection with totoca (“to run fast”).

16C: Codex Magliabechiano, f. 12r.
matla tli uçe toch / tli q quire dezir / onze conejos.
matla tli uçe tochtli. which means “eleven rabbits”.

The eighth day sign of the Aztec tonalpohualli, represented conceptually by this animal.


農曆

/nʊŋ³⁵ li⁵¹/

/nʊŋ²¹ lɪk̚²/

/nˡuŋ⁵³⁻³³ ⁽ˡ⁻⁾nˡiʔ⁵/

/lɔŋ²⁴⁻²² liɪk̚⁴/

/lɔŋ²³⁻³³ liɪk̚⁴/

/lɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ liɪk̚⁴/

/lɔŋ¹³⁻²² liɪk̚¹²¹/

/lɔŋ²⁴⁻²² liak̚²⁴/

/loŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ leʔ⁴/

/nʊŋ³⁵ li⁵¹/

/nʊŋ²¹ lɪk̚²/

/nˡuŋ⁵³⁻³³ ⁽ˡ⁻⁾nˡiʔ⁵/

/lɔŋ²⁴⁻²² liɪk̚⁴/

/lɔŋ²³⁻³³ liɪk̚⁴/

/lɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ liɪk̚⁴/

/lɔŋ¹³⁻²² liɪk̚¹²¹/

/lɔŋ²⁴⁻²² liak̚²⁴/

/loŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ leʔ⁴/

lunisolar calendar
lunisolar calendar#English

Chinese calendar (the traditional lunisolar calendar of East Asia)