Re: Month name origins
It's probably from the name "Junius," the name of a Roman clan. The word is etymologically related to "juvenis" or young--which may be related to its position as a spring month.Some sources give its...
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Goddess of marriage, Jupiter's wife.Now I'm curious, lemme see:Janus was two headed god of beginnings and endings.->February?Mars--god of war.->April?->May? Juno--already coveredJulius...
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The Britannica says: "from Roman republican calendar month Junius, probably named for the goddess Juno".Wow. Three replies in the space of a minute and two seconds. Obviously the previous two weren't...
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I found this at www.takeourword.com/Issue...#Spotlight"A rite of this festival (Roman Lupercalia, February 15th) was the ritual striking of women with a februa, a thong fashioned from the skin of a...
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Oops, I should have looked a little further. All the names of the months are covered here:www.takeourword.com/Issue...#Spotlight
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If Nero had lived longer, September would have been pushed off the Tarpeian Rock, along with Quintilis and Sextilis, or whatever the predecessors to July and August were called. He had fully...
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