| 单词 | nundinal letter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnundinal letter nundinal letter n. one of the eight letters A to H used to indicate the days of the ancient Roman nundinal period. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > letter (A-H) attached to Roman nundinal period nundinal1728 nundinal letter1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The letter D will be the Nundinal Letter of the Year following. a1824 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVI. 147/2 The..Nundinal letters, a series of eight letters, which is continued from the first to the last day of the year, that there might always be one of them to signify those days of the year, on which were held the meetings, by the Romans termed Nundinae, and which returned every ninth day. 1872–3 Chambers's Encycl. 629/1 The dominical letters were first introduced into the calendar by the early Christians, to displace the nundinal letters in the Roman calendar. 1967 A. K. Michels Calendar Rom. Republic v. 84 The letters A–H, which recur regularly throughout the year in both the pre-Julian and Julian calendars, were..the so-called nundinal letters, by which the nundinae or ninth days could be reckoned. < as lemmas |
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