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See also:october

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    FromMiddle English, borrowed fromOld Frenchoctobre, fromLatinOctōber(“eighth month”), fromLatinoctō(“eight”), fromProto-Indo-European*oḱtṓw(“twice four”); +Latin-ber, from-bris, an adjectival suffix; October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar.

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    Proper noun

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    October (pluralOctobers)

    2. The tenthmonth of theGregorian calendar, followingSeptember and precedingNovember.
      Alternative forms:Oct,Oct.,OCT,8ber,10
      Synonym:(Quakerism)Tenth Month
      Holonyms:calendar year;year
      Comeronyms:January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,September,November,December
      • 2025 July 18, Timothy McLaughlin, “A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border. The Kachin Independence Organization fought for decades in obscurity. Now it's supplying essential minerals to manufacturers around the world”, inBloomberg Businessweek‎[1], archived fromthe original on18 July 2025:
        ByOctober it was advancing steadily toward Pangwa, encountering meager resistance.
    3. (rare)A femalegiven name transferred from the month name.
      • 2002 January,Cincinnati Magazine, volume35, number 4, page138:
        The other one [book] I just read isOctober Suite by Maxine Clair (Random House, $23.95). It's about a woman namedOctober. She's a young black schoolteacher in the 1950s ...
      • 2009, C.S. Graham,The Archangel Project,→ISBN, page31:
        From somewhere in the distance came the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle's siren. Lance flipped open his phone. “Get me the address of a woman namedOctober Guinness . . . That's right,October,” he said again, [...]

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    Translations

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    tenth month of the Gregorian calendar

    Noun

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    October (uncountable)

    1. (historical) A type ofale traditionally brewed in October.[from 18th c.]
      • 1716 March 21 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison],The Drummer; or, The Haunted House. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published1716 (indicated as 1715),→OCLC, Act V,page46:
        Sir, if I vvas vvorthy to adviſe you, I vvou'd have a Bottle of goodOctober by me. Shall I ſet a Cup of old Stingo at your Elbovv?
      • 1751,[Tobias] Smollett,The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume(please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […],→OCLC:
        [T]he gate of a largechateau, of a most noble and venerable appearance[…] induced them to alight and view the apartments, contrary to their first intention of drinking a glass of hisOctober at the door.
      • 1898, Stanley John Weyman, “III. Tutor and Pupils”, inThe Castle Inn:
        Sir George, borne along in his chair, peered up at this well-known window--well-known, since in the Oxford of 1767 a man's rooms were furnished if he had tables and chairs, store of beef andOctober, an apple-pie and Common Room port—and seeing the casement brilliantly lighted, smiled a trifle contemptuously.

    Verb

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    October (third-person singular simple presentOctobers,present participleOctobering,simple past and past participleOctobered)

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    1. (historical, transitive) In the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religiouschristening.

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    Gregorian calendar monthsedit

    Anagrams

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    Latin

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    Etymology

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      Byanalogy withSeptember, as if fromoctō and a suffix-ber. In theRoman calendar, the year began withMārtius(“March”), andOctōber was the eighth month of the year.

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      Adjective

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      Octōber (feminineOctōbris);third-declension three-termination adjective

      1. ofOctober

      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:kalendae 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
      nominativeOctōberOctōbrisOctōbrēsOctōbrēs
      genitiveOctōbrisOctōbrisOctōbriumOctōbrium
      dativeOctōbrīOctōbrīOctōbribusOctōbribus
      accusativeOctōbremOctōbremOctōbrēs
      Octōbrīs      		Octōbrēs
      Octōbrīs
      ablativeOctōbrīOctōbrīOctōbribusOctōbribus
      vocativeOctōberOctōbrisOctōbrēsOctōbrēs
      • In medieval and New Latin, the ablative singular can also be found asOctōbre.

      Proper noun

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      Octōber m sg (genitiveOctōbris);third declension

      1. October

      Declension

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

      singular
      nominativeOctōber
      genitiveOctōbris
      dativeOctōbrī
      accusativeOctōbrem
      ablativeOctōbrī
      vocativeOctōber
      • In medieval and New Latin, the ablative singular can also be found asOctōbre.

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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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      Gregorian calendar months:mēnsēsannīedit

      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

      Further reading

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      • “October”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

      Scots

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      Etymology

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      FromLatinOctōber(“of the eighth month”).

      Pronunciation

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      Proper noun

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      October

      1. October

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