Etymology

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Middle English kalender ← Old French calendier
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  1. Old Frenchcalendier
  2. Middle Englishkalender
  3. English todaycalendar

From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from kalō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium. Displaced native Old English rīmbōc and ġerīmbōc.

Words from the same roots

Latincalendarium all →

calendarium

Proto-Indo-European*kelh₁- all →

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