[DOC] [TLE] How Did the Months of the Year Get Their Names? | Wonderopolis [PAR] The ancient Romans used a different calendar system, and their year began in 
March and ended in February! Even though our modern system may be quite 
different from the ancient ... June: Apparently, June has always been a popular 
month for weddings! ... October: October's name comes from octo, Latin for eight.
". [DOC] [TLE] A History of the Months and the Meanings of their Names [PAR] This is the origin of the leap-year day being in February. In 46 BC, Julius Caesar 
reformed the Roman calendar (hence the Julian calendar) changing the number 
of days in many months ... Latin Januarius mensis "month of Janus" ... Quintilis (
and later Julius) has always had 31 days. ... Latin octo "eight" + -ber (adj. suffix) [DOC] [TLE] History Of Our Calendar | Calendars - Webexhibits [PAR] Before today's Gregorian calendar was adopted, the older Julian calendar was ... 
to Gregory's calendar by calling him the "Roman Antichrist" and claiming that its 
... Why do the 9th thru 12th months have names that mean 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th? 
... of a year number is difficult, so much more as one country might use different... [DOC] [TLE] Early Roman Calendar | Calendars - Webexhibits [PAR] The last six names were taken from the words for five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 
ten. ... The Romans did not have weekdays in the same sense as our Monday, ... 
Unnamed days in the early Roman month were assigned a number by ... 
Because a full moon comes halfway thru each lunation, its day was called Idus in 
Latin... [DOC] [TLE] Why the Ninth Month Comes from the Word Seven | Dictionary.com ... [PAR] September comes from the Latin root septem-, meaning seven, because in the 
original ..... It's the ninth month, but in the early Roman calendar it was the 
seventh. .... in our religion we have a different story which was pretty sad and bad 
to us for ... The English names for months are derived from Latin, though there's a 
lot of... [DOC] [TLE] Roman calendar - Wikipedia [PAR] The Roman calendar changed its form several times between the founding of 
Rome and the fall ... The original Roman calendar is believed to have been a 
lunar calendar, which ... their position on the calendar: the numbers five to ten in 
Latin being quinque, sex, ..... Oct.), but in the Julian calendar, it is eight days (a.d. 
IX Kal. [DOC] [TLE] The Names of the Months - Infoplease [PAR] NOTE: The earliest Latin calendar was a 10-month one, beginning with March; 
thus, September was the seventh month, October, the eighth, etc. July was... [DOC] [TLE] Why We Have a Seven Day Week and the Origin of the Names of ... [PAR] Apr 9, 2013 ... You see, the calendar year did not divide evenly by eight. ... natural that the days 
of the week were made in homage to the gods thought to rule the lives of mortals. 
... In Latin, it's dies Martis or Day of Mars and in ancient Greek it's hemera ... 
Saturn was a Roman god and, over different periods of time,... [DOC] [TLE] How did the months get their names? | OxfordWords blog [PAR] Jan 11, 2016 ... Ever wondered how the months got their names? ... recently bought a new diary 
or calendar and thought 'Where do these words come from? [DOC] [TLE] Roman calendar and Roman dates - Paul Lewis [PAR] History Many things about the Roman calendar are still the subject of dispute. ... 
Romans used the letters AUC after these dates (in Latin ab urbe condita - from 
the ... people from other religions whose Lord, if they have one, was born in a 
different year. ... The ten month year is still recalled in the names of some of our 
months... [DOC] [TLE] Days, Months and Seasons - A Brief History - Seiyaku [PAR] The names we use for days,

Question: Though it has a different number in our calendar, its name comes from the Latin for "eight"
Answer: October