Meanings
- not comparableOf, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system.
This growing focus on calendrical matters in early modern Europe paralleled, and in some measure directly influenced, a renewed interest among Jews in their own calendar.
2011, Elisheva Carlebach, Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe, Belknap Press, →ISBN, page 473 more examples
At that point, humanity crosses another threshold, miniaturizes its universe into symbolic form, and takes a toddling step toward iconography, writing, and the first stammerings of calendrical notation and mathematics.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 95Although other ancient Mesoamerican societies, even in the Preclassic period, also possessed calendars, only the Maya calendar can be translated directly into today's calendrical system.
2009, Fred S. Kleine, Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History, Thomson Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 371In Vietnam, the calendrical system of "heavenly stems and earthly branches" sounds quite mystical and foreign, but this lunar calendar can in fact be translated quite simply into a Western calendar year with a formula and a chart.
2011, Erik Harms, Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 101Synonyms: calendric
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiverelating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Frenchcalendier
- Middle Englishkalender
- Englishcalendar
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishcalendrical
Translations
Catalan calendàric
- calendàricof, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
Danish kalendermæssig
- kalendermæssigof, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
Finnish kalenteri-, ajanlasku-
- kalenteri-of, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
- ajanlasku-of, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
- ajanlaskunof, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
French calendaire
- calendaireof, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
German kalendarisch
- kalendarischof, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
Greek ημερολογιακός
- ημερολογιακός (imerologiakós)of, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
Norwegian Bokmål kalendarisk
- kalendariskof, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
Russian календа́рный
- календа́рный (kalendárnyj)of, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
Spanish calendárico
- calendáricoof, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
Swedish kalendarisk
- kalendariskof, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
Ukrainian календа́рний
- календа́рний (kalendárnyj)of, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
Cite this entry
calendrical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calendrical
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