december

IPA^(key): /deˈsɛˀmbɐ/, [d̥e̝ˈseˀmb̥ɐ], [te̝ˈseˀmpɒ̽]

december c

1. December (the twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar)

• (Gregorian calendar months) måned i den gregorianske kalender; januar, februar, marts, april, maj, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, december
  Obsolete words: glugmåned, blidemåned, tormåned, fåremåned, ?, ?, ormemåned, høstmåned, fiskemåned, liljemåned, slagtemåned, kristmåned ^{(Category: da:Months)}

From Middle Dutch december, from Latin december.

• IPA^(key): /deːˈsɛmbər/, /dəˈzɛmbər/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): [deɪˈsɛmbər]

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• Hyphenation: de‧cem‧ber
• Rhymes: -ɛmbər

december m (plural decembers, diminutive decembertje n)

1. December

• Afrikaans: Desember
• Negerhollands: december
• → Caribbean Hindustani: desambar
• → Caribbean Javanese: désèmber
• → Indonesian: Desember
• → Papiamentu: desèmber
• → Trió: risenpë

• (Gregorian calendar months) maanden van de gregoriaanse kalender; januari, februari, maart, april, mei, juni, juli, augustus, september, oktober, november, december ^{(Category: nl:Months)}

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɛt͡sɛmbɛr]

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• Hyphenation: de‧cem‧ber
• Rhymes: -ɛr

december (plural decemberek)

1. December

• Appendix:Hungarian words of time

(Gregorian calendar months) január, február, március, április, május, június, július, augusztus, szeptember, október, november, december ^{(Category: hu:Months)}

• december in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• december in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Borrowed from German Dezember.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛt͡sɛmbɛr/
• Syllabification: no‧de‧cem‧ber

december m inan

1. December

   Synonyms: gòdnik, grëdzéń

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “grudzień”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2

By syncope from earlier *decumo-mēmbris, analogically to septem : september, from earlier *decumo-mēnsris "of the tenth month", from the ordinal stem decem (“ten”) + *mēnsris, from mens- (“month”) + -ris. In the Roman calendar, the year began with mārtius (“March”), and december was the tenth month of the year.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deˈkem.ber/, [d̪ɛˈkɛmbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈt͡ʃem.ber/, [d̪eˈt͡ʃɛmber]

december (feminine decembris, neuter decembre); third-declension three-termination adjective

1. of December
   • 59 B.C.E. - 17 C.E. — Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, Book XXII

     postremo decembri iam mense ad aedem Saturni Romae immolatum est.

     finally in the middle of the month of December there was a sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn.

2. (masculine substantive) December
   • 1283 — Tomazina de Savere, published in Josip Lučić (1984) Spisi Dubrovačke Kancelarije, Knjiga II, page 310.

     Die tercio decembris — On the third day of December

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

In Latin, month names are also used as adjectives, modifying substantives such as mensis.

Third-declension three-termination adjective.

Borrowings

Unsorted borrowings

These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.

• Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Détsämmber (Eupen)

Borrowed from Latin december.

• IPA^(key): /deˈsæm.bəʀ/
• Hyphenation: de‧cem‧ber
• Rhymes: -æmbəʀ

december m

1. December (month)

• dezember (Sutsilvan)

From Latin december.

december m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) December

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛt͡sɛmbɛr/

december m inan (genitive singular decembra, nominative plural decembre, genitive plural decembrov, declension pattern of stroj)

1. December

• (Gregorian calendar months) mesiac gregoriánskeho kalendára; január, február, marec, apríl, máj, jún, júl, august, september, október, november, december ^{(Category: sk:Months)}

• decembrový

• “december”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

• IPA^(key): /dɛt͡sɛ̀ːmbər/

decémbər m inan

1. December

• (Gregorian calendar months) méseci gregorijánskega koledárja; jánuar, fébruar, márec, apríl, máj, júnij, júlij, avgúst, septêmber, október, novêmber, decêmber

• IPA^(key): /dɛˈsɛmbɛr/

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december c

1. December

• Christmånad
• julmånad
• kristmånad

• decembermånad
• decembermånaden (definite form for december)