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The calends or kalends (Latin: kalendae) is the first day of every month in the Roman calendar. The English word "calendar" is derived from this word. Use.
The kalends were the day for payment of debts and the account books (kalendaria) kept for them gave English its word calendar. The public Roman calendars were the fasti , which designated the religious and legal character of each month's days.
The last day of January was the pridie Kalendas Februarias, [a] "day before the Kalends of February". Roman counting was inclusive ; January 9 was ante diem V Idūs Ianuarias , "the 5th day before the Ides (13th) of January," usually abbreviated a.d. V Id. Ian. (or with the a.d. omitted altogether); January 23 was X Kal. Feb. , "the 10th day ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 March 2025. First day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 1 January This article is about the first day of the Gregorian calendar year. For the first day in other calendars, see New Year. For other uses, see New Year's Day (disambiguation). New Year's Day Fireworks in Mexico City for the Celebration ...
Some religious observances were monthly. The first day of the month was the Kalends (or Calends, from which the English word "calendar" derives). Each Kalends was sacred to Juno, and the Regina sacrorum ("Queen of the Rites," a public priestess) marked the day by presiding over a sacrifice to the goddess. [8]
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The scholar Jacob Latham has suggested that in late antiquity the Kalends of January was no longer solely a pagan holiday but had been reinvented as a holiday that openly fused together Christian and pagan traditions and symbolism. [9] All of the countries with the earliest accounts of the Yule log also were once part of the Roman empire. [4]
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