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Etymology

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FromMiddle EnglishDecember,Decembre, fromOld Frenchdecembre, fromLatindecember(“tenth month”), fromLatindecem(“ten”); +Latin-ber, from-bris, an adjectival suffix; December was the tenth month in the Roman calendar.

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December (pluralDecembers)

  2. The twelfth and lastmonth of theGregorian calendar, followingNovember and preceding theJanuary of the following year, containing thesouthern solstice.
    Synonym:(rare)Yulemonth
    • a.1633 (date written),Thomas Dekker,The Wonder of a Kingdome, London: […] Robert Raworth for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published1636,→OCLC, Act I,signature [A3], recto:
      Old Oakes doe not eaſily fall: /Decembers cold hand combes my head and beard, / ButMay ſvvimmes in my blood; and he that vvalkes / VVithout his vvooden third legge, is never old.
  3. (rare)A femalegiven name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].
    • 2017, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow,Personal Stereo,→ISBN, page45:
      But others were less than thrilled with this new gizmo, particularly its addictive qualities. There were reports of breakups threatened and consummated over it. “Our marriage or your Sony,” one woman told her husband, who duly sold the Walkman to a bachelor friend. A young woman namedDecember Cole, a sales executive at a beauty magazine, recalled a trip to Atlantic City with "a basically rude" man who wouldn't stop "bopping around to his own music."
  4. Asurname.

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Translations

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twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar

Statistics

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  • According to the 2010 United States Census,December is the 97210th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 187 individuals.December is most common among White (57.22%) and Black/African American (32.09%) individuals.

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Gregorian calendar monthsedit

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Latin

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Etymology

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    Byhaplology from earlier*decumo-mēmbris, analogically toseptem :September, from earlier*decumo-mēnsris "of the tenth month", from the ordinal stemdecem(“ten”) + *mēnsris, frommens-(“month”) +-ris. In theRoman calendar, the year began withMārtius(“March”), andDecember was the tenth month of the year.

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    Adjective

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    December (feminineDecembris,neuterDecembre);third-declension three-termination adjective

    1. ofDecember
      • 59B.C.E. - 17C.E. —Titus Livius,Ab Urbe Condita, Book XXII
        postremoDecembri iam mense ad aedem Saturni Romae immolatum est.
        finally in the middle of the monthof December there was a sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn.

    Usage notes

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    In Classical Latin, month names were regularly used as adjectives, generally modifying a case-form ofmēnsis m sg(“month”) or of one of the nouns used in theRoman calendar to refer to specific days of the month from which other days were counted:Calendae f pl(“calends”),Nōnae f pl(“nones”),Īdūs f pl(“ides”). However, the masculine nounmēnsis could be omitted byellipsis, so the masculine singular forms of month names eventually came to be used as proper nouns.[1]

    The accusative plural adjective formsAprīlīs,Septembrīs,Octōbrīs,Novembrīs,Decembrīs[2] are ambiguous in writing, being spelled identically to the genitive singular forms of the nouns; nevertheless, the use of ablative singular forms in-ī and comparison with the usage of other month names as adjectives supports the interpretation of-is as an accusative plural adjective ending in Classical Latin phrases such as "kalendas Septembris".[3]

    Declension

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    Third-declension three-termination adjective.

    singularplural
    masculinefemininemasculinefeminine
    nominativeDecemberDecembrisDecembrēsDecembrēs
    genitiveDecembrisDecembrisDecembriumDecembrium
    dativeDecembrīDecembrīDecembribusDecembribus
    accusativeDecembremDecembremDecembrēs
    Decembrīs    		Decembrēs
    Decembrīs
    ablativeDecembrīDecembrīDecembribusDecembribus
    vocativeDecemberDecembrisDecembrēsDecembrēs
    • In New Latin, the ablative singular can also be found asDecembre.

    Proper noun

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    December m sg (genitiveDecembris);third declension

    1. December
      Synonym:Decembermensis
      • 1283 — Tomazina de Savere,published in Josip Lučić (1984)Spisi Dubrovačke Kancelarije, Knjiga II, page 310.
        Die terciodecembris — On the third dayof December
        (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

    Declension

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    Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in-ī), singular only.

    singular
    nominativeDecember
    genitiveDecembris
    dativeDecembrī
    accusativeDecembrem
    ablativeDecembrī
    vocativeDecember

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    Borrowings
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    These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.

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    References

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    1. ^Karl Gottlob Zumpt (1853) Leonhard Schmitz, Charles Anthon, transl.,A Grammar of the Latin Language, 3rd edition,pages31, 85
    2. ^Gaeng, Paul A. (1968)An Inquiry into Local Variations in Vulgar Latin: As Reflected in the Vocalism of Christian Inscriptions, page183
    3. ^Frost, P. (1861)The Germania and Agricola of Tacitus,page161

    Old English

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    December m

    1. December

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    Scots

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    Etymology

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    FromLatindecember(“of the tenth month”).

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    • IPA(key): [ˈdɪzɛmˈbər],[ˈdɛzɛmˈbər]

    Proper noun

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    December

    1. December

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