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December

December · m

the tenth month of the Roman year

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Where it lives

Eclogarum Liber 7 · 25.57/10k
Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Epigrammata 19 · 3.38/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Divus Augustus 2 · 1.49/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 2 · 1.24/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 2 · 1.09/10k

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Dĕcember — Lewis & Short

Dĕcember, bris, m.decem and -ber, = fer, Sanscr. bhar, to carry, bear: cf. Septem-ber, etc.,

I the tenth month of the Roman year, reckoned from March, and consequently our twelfth, December (containing, as now, 31 days): "dehinc quintus (mensis) Quintilis et sic deinceps usque ad Decembrem a numero," Varr. L. L. 6, § 34 Müll.; Cic. Leg. 2, 21 fin.: acceptus Geniis December (on account of the Saturnalia celebrated in this month), Ov. F. 3, 58; cf. Sen. Ep. 18: canus, Mart. 1, 50: gelidus, Ov. Tr. 1, 11, 3; cf.: fumosus, id. ib. 2, 491.—

b Adj.: ut adesset senatus frequens a. d. VIII. Kalendas Decembres, Cic. Phil. 3, 8: Nonae Decembres, Hor. Od. 3, 18, 10: Idibus Decembribus, Liv. 4, 37: libertate Decembri utere (i. e. of the Saturnalia), Hor. S. 2, 7, 4.—

II As closing the year, meton. for the (past) year: hic tertius December, ex quo, etc., Hor. Epod. 11, 5; cf.: me quater undenos implevisse Decembres, id. Ep. 1, 20, 27.—

2 Dĕcember, bris, m., a Roman surname, Inscr. Grut. 241; 676 al.; name of a slave, Dig. 40, 5, 41, § 15.

In the wild

Decembri Cicero, Pro Cn. Plancio 90
Decembris Ausonius, Eclogarum Liber 23.35
Decembris Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 17.2
December Martial, Epigrammata 7.37.6
December Ausonius, Epistularum 23.7
Decembribus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.8.18

6 of 101 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. december (scan p. 190; entry #2944).

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