Duodecember

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A notional, normally non-existent fourteenth month of the Western calendar.

Word forms

Duodecember Duodecembers

Etymology

From Latin duodecim (“twelve”); formed as logical continuation to December, which in its turn is derived from Latin decem (“ten”), as it was the tenth month in the Roman calendar. Possibly taken from the French Duodécembre, used by Sylvain Maréchal in 1788

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