Talk:Calends

message: The Romans assigned these kalends to the first day of the month, signifying the start of the new moon cycle[citation needed]. 
This line is confusing.  If the Roman month was a month of the solar year, then how could the first day of a solar month signify "the start of the new moon cycle?"  This is nonsensical, and obviously taken out of context from the original source.
:This is easy to explain: the "kalends" is a term used traditionally in Solar calendar (i.e. the Julian one, since 45 BC onwards), but the information above refers to the pre-Julian lunar calendar, where "Kalendae" was the name of the day, when new moon should appear. 82.210.159.30 15:26, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solar kalends 

message: This term can be traced back to the Etruscans, which could explain the appearance of the letter k, a letter less favoured by Latin than the letter c (the few Latin words containing a k are often borrowed from the Etruscans).
This "explanation" is an obvious absurd - the "K" letter has nothing to do with Etruscans. The "appearance of the letter k" is simply one of few relics of older Latin ortography, before the reform made at the end of the 4-th century BC IIRC, which introduced the new letter G, and completely changed the older usage of C, K and Q. 82.210.159.30 15:26, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Whichever is correct, the article ought to be consistent. The article is Kalends, but the headword is "Calends". We should be using one or the other, not both (but also mentioning the other spelling). Hairy Dude (talk) 17:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Absurd 

message: At 00:04, 13 February 2008, anonymous 74.232.93.17 made the edit (replaced all instances of the incorrect "Kalends" with "Calends", since calends is spelt with a "C". Whoever grossly mispelt Calends should leave this site forever.)
However, Kalends was traditionally spelled and abbreviated with a K.
Since I don't have a source for this, I'm not going to unilaterally change it back.  I'm hoping someone else has a source. --kundor (talk) 22:06, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: My Concise Oxford Dictionary, 9th edition, prefers the C spelling, notes the K spelling, and says "Middle English via Old French calendes from Latin kalendae, the first day of the month, when the order of days was proclaimed, from the base of Latin calare, Greek kalein ('call, proclaim')".  On the basis of this source, I'm going to go ahead and move it to Calends, noting Kalends as an alternative spelling.  And on the subject of the rather dismissive edit summary from an anonymous IP user quoted above, I wish I could resist pointing out that s/he misspelt "mispelt", but I can't.  --Karenjc 16:09, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Kalendae" should only be spelled with a K, I think...it looks extremely odd spelled with a C. Adam Bishop (talk) 18:41, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  K vs C 

message: The rules for computation by Calends are included in the following verses:
 Prima Dies Mensis cujusque est dicta Calendæ:
 Sex Majus Nonas, October, Julius, et Mars;
 Quatuor at reliqui: Dabit Idus quilibet Octo.
 Inde Dies reliquos omnes dic esse Calendas;
 Quas retro numerans dices a Mense sequente.[1]
After calculating this number, the pontiff would say something like: Quinque dies te calo, Juno novella. meaning: I invoke you, new Juno, for five days.
The phrase about "the pontiff" seems to suggest that the verse cited above is ancient and used by Roman pontiffs. This cannot be true, the verse is too rude (both grammatically and metrically) to be ancient. I am also in doubt about the suggested etymology. 193.0.99.100 (talk) 11:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Funny verse 

message: I think that suggested etymology (from "calare") may be doubted on the ground that the term coined from that verb would sound "kalandae", and not "kalendae". At last, the rule forming gerundives is rather strict in Latin, and so it would seem that the term rather comes from "calere", as, by the way, suggested here and there, in publications newer than 18th century. 193.0.99.100 (talk) 11:23, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: I wonder if some content could be added to make the article helpful to people who might hope to find practical guidance on reading dates written with the Kalends form? Unoquha (talk) 11:15, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No, but we should link through to Roman calendar, which does. "Kalend form" involves the nones and ides as well. — LlywelynII 03:49, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Article content

message: Despite the derivation of the word "calendar" in English, the original word Kalends is correctly spelled with a K, not a C. I'm not making this up; this is 3 and a half years of Latin talking! Please reinstate the correctly spelled Article instead of redirecting to "Calends" (sic). The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 05:11, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the English Wikipedia and "calends" is one of two valid spellings in English, along with "kalends". You're thinking of the word "kalendae" in Latin. 160.176.83.211 (talk) 12:42, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kalends with a K 

message: The article needs more coverage of the religious rituals at the kalends, apparently involving the pontifex minor, the rex sacrorum, and a sacrifice to Juno. — LlywelynII 14:50, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Rituals