TheRomanian calendar is theGregorian, adopted in 1919. However, the traditional Romanian calendar has its own names for themonths. In modernRomania andMoldova, the Gregorian calendar is exclusively used for business and government transactions and predominates in popular use as well. Nevertheless, the traditional names of the months do appear in some contexts, for instance on ecclesiastical calendars produced by theRomanian Orthodox Church.

Romania adopted theGregorian calendar on 1 April 1919, which became 14 April 1919. In 2019, theNational Bank of Romania released acommemorative coin of 10silverlei to celebrate the centenary ofRomania's adoption of the calendar.^[1]

Most of the traditional names of the months are ofLatin origin, which indicates that their use predates theSlavic contact around the 8th century. Essentially all are constructed as agent nouns, most often with the suffix-ar, inherited from Latin-arius. As in Latin, the months are expressed using genitive constructions, i.e.:suntem înluna lui cuptor (literally: "we are in the month of July").

Note that the use oflui cuptor as opposed tocuptorului indicates that the months are analysed asanimate.

• Gregorian calendar
• Slavic calendar
• Lithuanian calendar
• French Republican calendar

• Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române,Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică "Iorgu Iordan", Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 1998

• Culture of Romania
• Culture of Moldova
• Months

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