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october m (plural octobers, diminutive octobertje n)

1. Superseded spelling of oktober.

• The spelling october was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.

From octo (“eight”) + -ber from -bris, an adjectival suffix.

By analogy with september, as if octō (“eight”) : septem. In the Roman calendar, the year began with mārtius (“March”), and octōber was the eighth month of the year.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /okˈtoː.ber/, [ɔkˈtoː.bɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /okˈto.ber/, [okˈtoː.ber]

octōber (feminine octōbris, neuter octōbre); third declension

1. Of October.
   • 1st century CE — Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella, De Re Rustica, Book XII

     Cum eius radicem mense octobri, quo[d] maxime matura est.

   • 1283 — Tomazina de Savere, published in Josip Lučić (1984) Spisi Dubrovačke Kancelarije, Knjiga II, page 293.

     Die tercio octubris — the third of October

In Latin, the month names are used as adjectives. In the Classical period, this adjective modifies a noun identifying a particular day, from which the date was reckoned. In Medieval Latin and later periods, the adjective modifies a numeral for the day of the month.

Third declension, nominative masculine singular in -er, nominative neuter singular in -e.

• Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• october in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• otgover

From Latin october (“of October”).

october m

1. October