# month
## English
### Alternative forms

* moneth (dialectal)

### Etymology

From Middle English mon(e)th, from Old English mōnaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably derived from *meh₁- (“measure”) with moon-cycles being used to measure time. Related to English moon.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: mŭnth, IPA: /mʌnθ/
** Audio (Received Pronunciation); “a month”:(file)
** Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌnθ

### Noun

month (plural months or (UK colloquial) month)
* A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
    July is my favourite month.
** 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
* A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
    We went on holiday for two months.
** 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
** 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.
* (obsolete, in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months.

#### Holonyms

* bimester
* trimester
* quadrimester
* semester
* year

#### Coordinate terms

* millennium
* century
* decade
* year
* month
* week
* day
* hour
* minute
* moment
* second
* millisecond
* microsecond
* nanosecond
* picosecond
* femtosecond
* attosecond
* zeptosecond
* yoctosecond

#### Derived terms

* 13th month
* ber month
* bissextile month
* calendar month
* draconic month
* draconitic month
* dump months
* Eastermonth
* ember months
* fence month
* flavor of the month
* flavour of the month
* gander month
* honey-month
* leap month
* light month
* lunar month
* man-month
* month-long
* monthly
* month mind
* month of consecution
* month of Sundays
* month's end
* months-long
* month's mind
* month to date
* moon month
* never in a month of Sundays
* nodical month
* periodic month
* person-month
* pinch and a punch for the first of the month
* Platonic month
* R month
* Roman month
* run of month
* sidereal month
* six-month club
* stellar month
* synodic month
* that time of the month
* time of the month
* tropical month
* Yulemonth

#### Translations
### See also

* calendar
* day
* time
* week
* year
* January
* February
* March
* April
* May
* June
* July
* August
* September
* October
* November
* December
* Tishrei
* Cheshvan
* Kislev
* Tevet
* Shevat
* Adar
* Nisan
* Iyar
* Sivan
* Tammuz
* Av
* Elul
* Muharram
* Safar
* Rabi I
* Rabi II
* Jumada I
* Jumada II
* Rajab
* Sha'ban
* Ramadan
* Shawwal
* Dhu'l-Qa'da
* Dhu'l-Hijja

## Middle English
### Noun

month
* Alternative form of moneth