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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 Superseded spelling of oktober.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.

By analogy with september, as if from a suffix -ber. In the Roman calendar, the year began with mārtius (“March”), and octōber was the eighth month of the year.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /okˈtoː.ber/, [ɔkˈt̪oːbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /okˈto.ber/, [okˈt̪ɔːber]

octōber (feminine octōbris, neuter octōbre); third-declension three-termination adjective

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Third-declension three-termination adjective.

octōber m (genitive octōbris); third declension

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

     Die tercio octubris — on the third day of October

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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

• “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