nundine

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin nundinae (“ninth-days”), a clipped form of nundinae feriae (“ninth-day festivals”), from its observance every eighth day (9 counting inclusively)[1] and from the Latin practice of treating most recurring calendrical days as plurals.[2][3]

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnʌndʌɪn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈnənˌdaɪn/

Noun

nundine (plural nundines)

  1. A market or fair held every eight days, particularly (historical) in Roman contexts.
  2. (obsolete) Any recurring eight-day period; an eight-day 'week'.

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ "nundine, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. ↑ Kennedy, Benjamin Hall, The Public School Latin Grammar (1879), p. 126.
  3. ↑ Michels, Agnes Kirsopp, Calendar of the Roman Republic (2015), p. 19.

Italian

Noun

nundine f (plural nundini)

  1. nundine

Derived terms

Latin

Adjective

nūndine

  1. vocative masculine singular of nūndinus
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