Etymology

Messidor

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Today it means: The tenth month of the French Republican Calendar, from June 19 or 20 to July 18 or 19. Full definition →

French messidor ← Latin messis ← Ancient Greek δῶρον
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromδῶρον“gift”
  2. Latin · derived frommessis“harvest”
  3. French · borrowed frommessidor
  4. English todayMessidor

Borrowed from French messidor, from Latin messis (“harvest”) + Ancient Greek δῶρον (dôron, “gift”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekδῶρον all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.