Vendemiaire
/vɛnˌdɛmɪˈɛː
/(also Vendémiaire /vɑ̃demjɛʀ/)
noun
The first month of the French Republican calendar (1793–1805), originally running from 22 September to 21 October.This system also had new names for the months - Vendemiaire for September, Fructidor for August - and lasted until Napoleon re-established the Gregorian Calendar in 1806....
- By the law of 16 Vendemiaire, Year 2 of the Republic it was laid down that the weight of the new currency should be defined in terms of the kilogram (initially one hundredth).
- Out went the old months - January to December - and in came Vendémiaire, Brumaire, Frimaire, Nivôse, Pluviôse, Ventôse, Germinal, Floréal, Prairial, Messidor, Thermidor and Fructidor.
Origin
French, from Latin vindemia 'vintage'.
- devaluate
- devaluation
- devalue
- Devanagari
- devastate
- devastating
- devastatingly
- devastation
- devastator
- devein
- develop
- developable
- developed
- developed world
- developer
- developing country
- developing world
- development
- developmental
- developmental delay
- developmentally
- development area
- development education
- development system
- Devensian