Get to know Calends better with 5 real example sentences, the meaning.
Calends meaning
- Often with initial capital: the first day of a month.
- The first day of a month of the Roman calendar.
Using Calends
- The main meaning on this page is: Often with initial capital: the first day of a month. | Often with initial capital: the first day of a month. | The first day of a month of the Roman calendar.
- In the example corpus, calends often appears in combinations such as: calends of, the calends.
Context around Calends
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 0 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Calends
- In this selection, "calends" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 32.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nones stand out and add context to how "calends" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include before the calends of march and calends nones and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "calends" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with calends
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Latin calendarium meant "account book, register" (as accounts were settled and debts were collected on the calends of each month). (25 words)
Calends, nones, and ides The ides occur on the thirteenth day in eight of the months, but in March, May, July, and October, they occur on the fifteenth. (28 words)
The calends are always the first day of the month, and before Julius Caesar's reform fell sixteen days (two Roman weeks) after the ides (except the ides of February and the intercalary month). (34 words)
It was on the first day, or Calends of Janus’ month, that the Romans felt it appropriate to take time to look back at what had happened the previous year as well as to look forward to the upcoming year. (40 words)
The days of these calendars were counted down (inclusively) to the next named day, so February 24 was ante diem sextum Kalendas Martias ("the sixth day before the calends of March") often abbreviated a. d. VI Kal. (37 words)
The calends are always the first day of the month, and before Julius Caesar's reform fell sixteen days (two Roman weeks) after the ides (except the ides of February and the intercalary month). (34 words)
Example sentences (5)
It was on the first day, or Calends of Janus’ month, that the Romans felt it appropriate to take time to look back at what had happened the previous year as well as to look forward to the upcoming year.
Calends, nones, and ides The ides occur on the thirteenth day in eight of the months, but in March, May, July, and October, they occur on the fifteenth.
New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Latin calendarium meant "account book, register" (as accounts were settled and debts were collected on the calends of each month).
The calends are always the first day of the month, and before Julius Caesar's reform fell sixteen days (two Roman weeks) after the ides (except the ides of February and the intercalary month).
The days of these calendars were counted down (inclusively) to the next named day, so February 24 was ante diem sextum Kalendas Martias ("the sixth day before the calends of March") often abbreviated a. d. VI Kal.
Common combinations with calends
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- calends of 3×
- the calends 3×