Well, quite fitting for him. He's called "Name Explain". Having something without a name means that he cannot be useful to the people by telling them what that something's name is supposed to mean.
I remember reading somewhere that January and February were added to the end of the year initially, maintaining the Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec pattern, but then the start of the year was changed from March - when workers got paid and had parties - to January, probably to match up with the winter solstice and make Janus happy.
I also remember something like that, which also explains why leap days are in February as that would be the last month of the year and the extra day would be added at the end of the year.
Error! Numa added those months to the END of the year. The Roman year actually started part way into March, then the start of the year was moved to April 1st. It was the Georgian calendar that made January 1st the start of the year
It's even more complicated than that. The old Roman Calendar had New Year start on March 1st, then did really move it backwards to January 1st to line up with the appointment of new Consuls (which had originally been an end of year event). Some time after the fall of the Roman Empire, the start of the year, for various reasons, was celebrated variously either on Christmas Day or some time around Easter, more specifically March 25th. Then Pope Gregory XIII came along with his fancy new calendar and made January 1st the date for the start of the year again, but countries that didn't switch over still used their old New Years (for example, April 4th 1710 in France was March 24th 1709 in the Great Britain, but the next day both countries would agree that it was 1710. 42 and a bit years later and both countries were both using the Gregorian Calendar, starting the year on January 1st 1753).
Interesting. I was taught that January & February were added to the end of the calendar & each month had the same amount of days, but because the rulers had biases toward certain months & wanted to show their dominance, they would add a day to that specific month & remove a day from the last month, February. Then when the Gregorian calendar came about, they placed January & February at the beginning. This is why some months have 31 days, some have 30 & why our second month, February, has the least with 28.
Iam asking this at my high school years becouse my friend name is octavia but she's the 1st child, so i ask her and she said becouse she born in october lol
Name Explain “Octo” comes from the Greek word “ΟΚΤΩ” which means eight (after the Ancient Greeks, Romans got the basics for Latin language). Same goes for Maia. But other than these, everything else was correctly said in this video. But next time, have in mind that Roman God system was almost identical to the Ancient Greek one. Zeus became Jupiter, Athena became Minerva, Ares became Mars and so on. Great videos, keep it up!
An explanation for the 13th month: There are different ways to center your calendar on, those ways being emphasis on tracking the sun and moon. With the former's tracking making a year and the latter a month. The evidence of a 13th month as a leap month suggests that such a calendar was lunisolar, in that it tracked both the sun and moon in sync. It was dropped in favor of going for a solar calendar, which is what the Gregorian calendar is, prioritizing the tracking of the sun over the moon. Thus, instead of a leap month every few years, we get a leap day. (And then there are lunar calendars which track the moon over the sun. The Islamic calendar is the most famous example.)
The lunar calendar that East Asian rice-growing countries use actually still have leap months. In a five year routine, we get a leap month every third and fifth years.
Probably the oldest (and still continuously used) calendar in the world- "Vikram Samvat" by the Hindus in India is actually a Lunisolar Calendar that has an extra month that comes every 2 to 2.5 years. :)
What I would called the months January: Millember February: Billember March: Trember April: Quadcember May: Quintember June: Sixtember July: September August: October September: November October: December November: Undecember December: Duodecember
We learned in our Latin class that February comes from "febris" (fever) because many people were sick in that month. April comes from "aperire" (to apear, to open up) because most flowers bloom then. And last, May could also come from "maior" (bigger, taller) because the flowers grow taller. Of course, there is not the perfect explaination for the origins of a word but this is how I learned it.
If only we kept the Roman way of keeping January & February at the end of the year would make Sept. thru Dec. still from the 7th thru the 10th months. The Chinese calendar is still easier where the month‘s name is just 1-12 before the word meaning "moon"/"month" just in Chinese and countries like Japan & Korea followed suit after the Chinese month naming method. The Vietnamese somewhat reversed the order for the regular months[January to December], the version which matches the chinese is used for the number of months [1 month to 12 months] instead.
"Things without a name are what my nightmares look like" gave me a sensible chuckle! Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus were recognised as gods by the Roman state after their deaths.
The real question is: why is the ninth month named after seven??? *_and why is the eleventh month named after nine???_* (i know it's answered in the video lol)
Actually, it's more complicated. It comes from Etruscan "Apru", which themselves took it from the Greek, and it is indeed linked to Aphrodite. However, when it came in Latin, they did notice how close it was to "aperire" (to open), and it influenced the word a bit. So you're actually both right.
I have worked a lot with French genealogical records and (at least in 19th century birth/marriage/death) records, IDK about common or contemporary usage) the months of September (septembre) through December (décembre) were often shortened as (bre appearing as superscript): 7bre, 8bre, 9bre, and Xbre (the X was stylized in a cursive, unlike other text). I kept dates in my notes as "[numeral day] [alpha month, eg. Jan, Feb...] [two digit year, eg. 27]" and often forgot that 9bre is November and would write Sept. I would usually catch this error after noticing 7bre appear elsewhere. This wasn't a problem with 7bre and 8bre because the French months for July and August (juillet & août) don't end in 'bre'.
@@flankerpang If it uses a leap month, probably, and the leap month's purpose is to line up the lunar month with the solar year. The Muslim calendar is strictly lunar, which is why its holidays drift throughout the solar year, and the Gregorian calendar is strictly solar, which is why the lunar months misalign with the calendar months.
It's only the Jewish calendar, but it's not a new month. It's the same month as the previous one (Adar) but with 30 extra days. The second part is referred to as Adar II.
This is why the plural, "octopi" is incorrect. Obviously, you can still use the word because it is understood by everyone as the plural of octopus, but should be "octopuses," or simply, "octopus," if you want use the grammatically correct plural of "octopus"
Another interesting thing is that I think if you’re born in (or near?) March, you can be an Ares. Ares is the Greek name for Mars, and March is named after Mars.
Hey, Name explain, my mom and I might have an idea for a video you could do(if it isn't too boring) We both noticed that dried fruits, like strawberries, are just called the dried fruit it is (Dried strawberries) while other fruits are given entirely different names, like dried grapes being called raisins.Whats with that and are there any more fruits with different dried fruit names?
"Something without a name is literally what my nightmares look like." It's my turn to name things for them to get powerful and abandon your nightmares.
Indian calendars (vikram and shak) still have the added month every three four years. It is called a purushottam month. The Hindu religious ceremonies still use vikram calender, started by King Vikramaditya of Gupt dynasty.
Thank you for informing me of something I already knew. lol I love calendars trivia. Can we go over the Chinese lunar calendar next? Year of the Pig … lol ;-)
Speaking of calendar names: Julius Caesar’s reworking of the calendar was radical and solved major discrepancies which were satisfactory for a over a millennium. Gregory altered the number days by a tiny fraction of one day and then names it after himself. Since then further adjustments have been made but without renaming. I say we should still be calling the calendar Julian, after the man who actually created the calendar we still use. Julian 2 if you must.
I haven’t watched the video yet but this is what the Latin teacher taught me two years ago: it’s because Julius (ceaser, I think) decided he wanted a month named after him and then Augustus something also wanted a month so they just shoved their way in there.
Anyone else ever notice that so many battles where fought in the month of October ? Strange to me maybe everyone fought each other before winter set in !
I've come up with a calendar that not only aligns the month names properly but also conveniently matches the solar declination pattern, which dictates seasons. I do this while acknowledging that the globe is too entrenched in the current calendar to change. But this can at least shed more light on how the sun moves through the sky and how the seasons act. The solar declination pattern is: Equinox, 12°, 20°, Solstice, 20°, 12°, Equinox, -12°, -20°, Solstice, -20°, -12°, etc. The Gregorian calendar has that aligned on around the 21st of each month. The significance of 12° is that’s when one of the poles sees the start/end of twilight. The significance of 20° is that’s when the sun moves up/down the sky half as fast as at the equinox. It effectively marks the unofficial start of early summer or early winter. (It's more like 20.2°, but I use 20° for simplicity.) Here’s my adjustment. Start the year on spring equinox. After all, the Gregorian calendar is designed for the equinox to always land around March 20. So, March is the 1st month and February is the 12th month. That conveniently makes September the 7th month, October the 8th month, etc. Odd months get 30 days and even months get 31 days. (February would be 30 days except leap years. People may dislike extending February, but keep in mind that the end of February would be equivalent of around March 19.) Certain holidays could be adjusted. For example, Christmas could fall on December 5 (about 5 days after the solstice) rather than the 25th. March 20 → March 1 April 19 → April 1 May 20 → May 1 June 19 → June 1 July 20 → July 1 August 19 → August 1 September 19 → September 1 October 19 → October 1 November 19 → November 1 December 19 → December 1 January 19 → January 1 February 18 → February 1
@@TheSpiritombsableye Yes, thanks for the feedback. But I'm not describing Earth's daily rotation. Rather, I'm referring to the analemma figure the Sun appears to make in the sky as Earth revolves around the Sun. In other words, I'm describing the rise and fall of the Sun's declination circle thru the course of the year, not the Sun's daily path thru the sky. Motion is relative, and it is much simpler to describe the interaction to a casual observer as the Sun moving thru the sky. If this had been about Earth's rotation, and how the angle of the declination circle changes with respect to latitude, then it'd be a bit easier to describe it from the viewpoint of the Sun. But by all means, if you can think of a way to simply describe what I'm talking about from the viewpoint of the Sun, I'll be very interested!
1:50 NVMA POMPILIVS* The use of caps was deliberate, not for yelling or anger, but because i wouldnt be correctly correcting Latin spelling if i wasent typing in all uppercase Although Latin did use lowercase, it is to my knowledge that by that time U and V were separate
I thought I knew the answer: Julius Caesar was cocky and added himself and August right in the middle of the calendar and voila. Guess it was more complicated than that.
Here's my proposal for a new month naming system: 1. Uniuary (also could be Uniember) 2. Duouary (also could be Duoember) 3. Tridember 4. Quadriember 5. Quintilember (also could be Quintils) 6. Sixtilember (also could could be Sixtils) 7. September (Normally 9th) 8. October (Normally 10th) 9. November (Normally 11th) 10. December (Normally 12th) 11. Centember (instead of Undecember to differentiate it from December) 12. Vigintember (instead of Duodecember to differentiate it from December)
@@PrezVeto I don't think so. Because other ten months already had their places in year. Even if they put January and February at the end, those months would still be in the part of the year as we know them today.
I believe they originally did add them at the end. March 1st makes more sense with spring in the Northern Hemisphere as the start of the new year and this is why they added leap year dates to the end of February, because it was the end of the year and not the second month.
This is literally how I translate between month names and numbers (when dealing with September, October, November and December). SEPTEMber = 7 + 2 = 9 OCTOber = 8 + 2 = 10 NOVEMber = 9 + 2 = 11 DECEMber = 10 + 2 = 12 Same thing when looking at the number first. Month 9 = 9 - 2 = 7 = SEPTEMber. Probably worth mentioning that my native language is Portuguese, which is a descendant of Latin. This whole thing is much more evident in Romance languages.
Daniel Dąbczak what is also interesting is that in Croatia some of the months are named like the ones that follow in other Slavic languages, so for them Listopad is in October (and July is in June (lipanj) and our August is in July (srpanj))
So I've heard this before that the year only have 10 months but I guess I didn't realize that after the tenth month there was a no time period? Like no months no days? Seems so strange, but I guess if I didn't have to keep my time so rigidly and if I couldn't do any work in the winter months I suppose I would have no need to keep track of time during that period... That at least sounds nice, I wish America was more polychronic
How about names of Gregorian months that are unrelated to the Latin names? e.g. Czech has červen and červenec; listopad is October in Croatian but November in Czech. Finnish elokuu (lifemonth) is not opposite marraskuu (deathmonth).
I don't know about latin but in greek "eight" is still "octo". "Octupus" is consisting from the greek words "octo" and "pus" (modern "pothi") wich means leg. So "octopus" literally means "eight legs"
‘These winter months’ is a saying I just can’t relate to in January and February. We call them ‘these summer months’ or more commonly- ‘hot hot hot hot hot cold hot hot hot rainy hot storm storm cold rain hot hot hot- so on’
Huh, I Had heard That The Reason The Numbered Months Don't Line Up With The End Of The Year Is Because January And February Used To Be At The End Of The Year (Which Makes More Sense, As That Way The Entirety Of A Winter Is In One Year, Instead Of Split Between Two), But They Were Later Moved By Some Reason.
Thanks so much for the name explain! Maybe if I was younger and I knew this, I might just not have the annoying problem of memorizing them and having them mixed up! It was just 7-8-9-10 for September to December. P.S. As a kid, I love etymology.
They could've put the new months at the end of the year and keep the order and naming intact. The year would just start in spring, or the could make March winter
As you've mentioned, there is another way of naming months in Europe (because I'm kinda sure that it wouldn't be a shocker that Japanese use names with different origins). Slavic languages (some in their archaic form some even in modern, like Croatian) name months based on agricultural events, and it kinda makes a lot of sense in this part of the world, but it's kinda useless for any southern or northern state.
You misspelled octagon. Also, the Hebrew calendar still uses a leap month and it falls around the same time. Also, you mentioned that wages were usually paid around February and March. This is when annual bonuses are typically disbursed. Is there a connection there? Did that tradition originate in Ancient Rome?
except that the year started on the spring equinox and was changed by the gregorian calendar when the church instituted it. prior to this the year would start on the harvest festival of easter essentially making January and february the 11th and twelfth months.
What has been missed from the video is that Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar in 709 AUC so that the days alternated between 31 and 30 days, February had 29 days in a normal year and 30 in a leap year, and he shifted the year start to Kalends Januarius (1 Jan 45 BC); the senate renamed Quintilius in his honour as Julius (July). When Sextilius was renamed August in honour of Caesar Augustus it was felt that his month should not have fewer days than Julius Caersar's month of July so the days were swapped to give us the pattern we now use. When Dennis the Little (Dionysius Exiguus) calculated the date of easter for the next 95 years in the year 247 Anno Diocletiani he calculated that Jesus Christ had been born some 531 years earlier and became his base year 1 (as zero had yet to be invented) and so published his tables in the year 532 Anno Domini (aka 532 AD). At some stage the beginning of the year was changed to 25 March - 9 months before 25 December - the date of Jesus' conception. This made the year 25 March to 24 March when taxes we due. When Pope Gregory made his reform to the Julian Calendar to correct for the over insertion of leap days, a number of extra leap days had to be removed from the calendar; at the same time he changed rhe year start back to Julius Caesar's 1st of January. In the UK the new calendar was finally accepted in 1752 and the extra days (11 by then) were removed in September so that 02/09/1752 was followed by 14/09/1752. When the taxes were due on 25 March 1753 bankers in the city refused to pay until 11 days later on 05/04/1753 - which is still our tax year end?
would be cool if they had gotten around to changing some more of the numbered months Claudius sounds cooler than september to keep with the emperor theme
What I don't get is why they didn't fix the words for the months in their own language when they added those two. Surely they'd see the glaring flaw more easily than we would.
Well October was the 8th month, Julius Caeser named July after him and August after his eldest son Augustus, or at least that is what ive always been told.
As someone born in October, thanks 😊 it's because of Julius and Augustus right? I got a sis born in July 😂😂 funnily enough I'm born on my dad's bday and HIS middle name is Augustus. So this vid was nice to have
What would you call October?
octopus
Damianmonth
Shoctober
１０月
Spooktober
"Something without a name is what my nightmares look like"
Bless your soul.
Well, quite fitting for him. He's called "Name Explain". Having something without a name means that he cannot be useful to the people by telling them what that something's name is supposed to mean.
*claps*
I wonder if he has ever played Planescape: Torment.
That red thing on mail boxes
We could ask why an October video was uploaded in February
Why not.
@@alexandrine1558, conspiracy theory I think so
@@alexandrine1558 you have 8 likes, i'm not liking so it can stay that way
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It's 12 now
@@stepanfedun9122 time to like! :D
I remember reading somewhere that January and February were added to the end of the year initially, maintaining the Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec pattern, but then the start of the year was changed from March - when workers got paid and had parties - to January, probably to match up with the winter solstice and make Janus happy.
wouldnt make sense to put the god of doorways and beginnings before last.
sounds possibly implausible
My mother once noticed this oddity, then complained as to why our New Years started in the dead middle of winter instead of springtime.
I also remember reading that.
Vernal equinox 21 March the beginning of the year?
I also remember something like that, which also explains why leap days are in February as that would be the last month of the year and the extra day would be added at the end of the year.
Romans... romans never change
Damn Romans
Neither do Justin Y. 😎
@@Гпник-д3ч *does. I know it's annoying, but still
We could tell them they have zero chance of changing but since they didn't have zero it would be moot.
@@lucasknox9694 im letting u noe that I downvoted ur comment.
Error! Numa added those months to the END of the year. The Roman year actually started part way into March, then the start of the year was moved to April 1st. It was the Georgian calendar that made January 1st the start of the year
Yeah, it started on March 25th. If it's March 24, 972 then the next day is March 25, 973.
@@PoweDiePieso odd
It's even more complicated than that. The old Roman Calendar had New Year start on March 1st, then did really move it backwards to January 1st to line up with the appointment of new Consuls (which had originally been an end of year event).
Some time after the fall of the Roman Empire, the start of the year, for various reasons, was celebrated variously either on Christmas Day or some time around Easter, more specifically March 25th.
Then Pope Gregory XIII came along with his fancy new calendar and made January 1st the date for the start of the year again, but countries that didn't switch over still used their old New Years (for example, April 4th 1710 in France was March 24th 1709 in the Great Britain, but the next day both countries would agree that it was 1710. 42 and a bit years later and both countries were both using the Gregorian Calendar, starting the year on January 1st 1753).
Interesting. I was taught that January & February were added to the end of the calendar & each month had the same amount of days, but because the rulers had biases toward certain months & wanted to show their dominance, they would add a day to that specific month & remove a day from the last month, February. Then when the Gregorian calendar came about, they placed January & February at the beginning. This is why some months have 31 days, some have 30 & why our second month, February, has the least with 28.
I've been on this planet for over 50 years and I never once thought to ask this question
And worse still, you'll *_never_* ask this question since it has already been answered for you
Iam asking this at my high school years becouse my friend name is octavia but she's the 1st child, so i ask her and she said becouse she born in october lol
Name Explain “Octo” comes from the Greek word “ΟΚΤΩ” which means eight (after the Ancient Greeks, Romans got the basics for Latin language). Same goes for Maia. But other than these, everything else was correctly said in this video. But next time, have in mind that Roman God system was almost identical to the Ancient Greek one. Zeus became Jupiter, Athena became Minerva, Ares became Mars and so on. Great videos, keep it up!
An explanation for the 13th month:
There are different ways to center your calendar on, those ways being emphasis on tracking the sun and moon. With the former's tracking making a year and the latter a month. The evidence of a 13th month as a leap month suggests that such a calendar was lunisolar, in that it tracked both the sun and moon in sync. It was dropped in favor of going for a solar calendar, which is what the Gregorian calendar is, prioritizing the tracking of the sun over the moon. Thus, instead of a leap month every few years, we get a leap day.
(And then there are lunar calendars which track the moon over the sun. The Islamic calendar is the most famous example.)
The lunar calendar that East Asian rice-growing countries use actually still have leap months. In a five year routine, we get a leap month every third and fifth years.
Probably the oldest (and still continuously used) calendar in the world- "Vikram Samvat" by the Hindus in India is actually a Lunisolar Calendar that has an extra month that comes every 2 to 2.5 years. :)
Isn't Octogon spelt with an a not an o ?
Like this: Octagon
@erick meyer ok
@@Πυροφάνις Thanks for the answer. It was quite helpful.
But it still means shape with 8 sides
I wondered this, then I wondered if you had a video on it, and now I am very happy
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What I would called the months
January: Millember
February: Billember
March: Trember
April: Quadcember
May: Quintember
June: Sixtember
July: September
August: October
September: November
October: December
November: Undecember
December: Duodecember
I'm so glad you called it sixtember and not the other thing
@@superguy199Sextember?
We learned in our Latin class that February comes from "febris" (fever) because many people were sick in that month. April comes from "aperire" (to apear, to open up) because most flowers bloom then. And last, May could also come from "maior" (bigger, taller) because the flowers grow taller. Of course, there is not the perfect explaination for the origins of a word but this is how I learned it.
If only we kept the Roman way of keeping January & February at the end of the year would make Sept. thru Dec. still from the 7th thru the 10th months. The Chinese calendar is still easier where the month‘s name is just 1-12 before the word meaning "moon"/"month" just in Chinese and countries like Japan & Korea followed suit after the Chinese month naming method. The Vietnamese somewhat reversed the order for the regular months[January to December], the version which matches the chinese is used for the number of months [1 month to 12 months] instead.
"Things without a name are what my nightmares look like" gave me a sensible chuckle!
Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus were recognised as gods by the Roman state after their deaths.
Dude! You read my mind! I was thinking about this, last week!
The real question is: why is the ninth month named after seven???
*_and why is the eleventh month named after nine???_*
(i know it's answered in the video lol)
And the 12th month after the 10th?
It's all the same reason
And that is why they made this video!
I think it’s not as obvious because in English, we tend to hear the “octo” prefix more than the others.
Jng
April is Latin for opening
Opening of flowers
Actually, it's more complicated. It comes from Etruscan "Apru", which themselves took it from the Greek, and it is indeed linked to Aphrodite. However, when it came in Latin, they did notice how close it was to "aperire" (to open), and it influenced the word a bit. So you're actually both right.
So April is a month of Aphrodite and defloration, right xD?
@RünerTheWolf 25 And eggs, don't forget Easter.
I have worked a lot with French genealogical records and (at least in 19th century birth/marriage/death) records, IDK about common or contemporary usage) the months of September (septembre) through December (décembre) were often shortened as (bre appearing as superscript): 7bre, 8bre, 9bre, and Xbre (the X was stylized in a cursive, unlike other text). I kept dates in my notes as "[numeral day] [alpha month, eg. Jan, Feb...] [two digit year, eg. 27]" and often forgot that 9bre is November and would write Sept. I would usually catch this error after noticing 7bre appear elsewhere. This wasn't a problem with 7bre and 8bre because the French months for July and August (juillet & août) don't end in 'bre'.
Fun fact: the lunar calendar still uses a leap month :D
That would make it a lunisolar calendar... Right?
@@flankerpang If it uses a leap month, probably, and the leap month's purpose is to line up the lunar month with the solar year. The Muslim calendar is strictly lunar, which is why its holidays drift throughout the solar year, and the Gregorian calendar is strictly solar, which is why the lunar months misalign with the calendar months.
It's only the Jewish calendar, but it's not a new month. It's the same month as the previous one (Adar) but with 30 extra days. The second part is referred to as Adar II.
@@BGerbs66 fun fact this year is a leap year in the Jewish calender
The Chinese calendar is Lunar-Solar and uses a leap month.
Love your stuff man, always informative! Keep up the good work, I'll put a shout out to you on my blog.
You should've talked about the Kalendae, nonae and idae.
Actually, the word "octopus" is Greek. In Latin, it's "ottopus."
🐙
Oh we got a smart one
This is why the plural, "octopi" is incorrect. Obviously, you can still use the word because it is understood by everyone as the plural of octopus, but should be "octopuses," or simply, "octopus," if you want use the grammatically correct plural of "octopus"
Octopussy
@@jackgimre431 it’s octopodes I think
Ottoman Empire/Sea Farers🐙👳🏼♂️👳🏻♂️👳🏿♂️👽🌊🛸⚓️🔱
Your videos are the best!I can learn things that I don't know!!!
Another interesting thing is that I think if you’re born in (or near?) March, you can be an Ares. Ares is the Greek name for Mars, and March is named after Mars.
I'm disappointed, all the namings make a lot of sense.
I used to think that November got its name because it lacked vember.
I once read that the name April comes from the Latin word aperiere for open, because its the opening to spring.
This was a really great video :) love your content dude
Hey, Name explain, my mom and I might have an idea for a video you could do(if it isn't too boring)
We both noticed that dried fruits, like strawberries, are just called the dried fruit it is (Dried strawberries) while other fruits are given entirely different names, like dried grapes being called raisins.Whats with that and are there any more fruits with different dried fruit names?
Probably just a marketing thing
Thanks for your wonderful and insightful videos!:)
Loved this video! And October is my birthday month so it’s extra special to me ❤️👌🏼
"Something without a name is literally what my nightmares look like."
It's my turn to name things for them to get powerful and abandon your nightmares.
Fun fact. Augustus'es original name was Octavian.
Possibly, the reason for naming the 8th month after himself.
It makes sense to have 13 months since there are 13 lunar months. There is enough days in the year to have 13 28 day months with one day left over.
Indian calendars (vikram and shak) still have the added month every three four years. It is called a purushottam month. The Hindu religious ceremonies still use vikram calender, started by King Vikramaditya of Gupt dynasty.
Thank you for informing me of something I already knew. lol
I love calendars trivia. Can we go over the Chinese lunar calendar next? Year of the Pig … lol ;-)
Yes, I’m still writing “Year of the Dog“ on all my checks. Old habits die hard.
Speaking of calendar names: Julius Caesar’s reworking of the calendar was radical and solved major discrepancies which were satisfactory for a over a millennium. Gregory altered the number days by a tiny fraction of one day and then names it after himself. Since then further adjustments have been made but without renaming. I say we should still be calling the calendar Julian, after the man who actually created the calendar we still use. Julian 2 if you must.
I haven’t watched the video yet but this is what the Latin teacher taught me two years ago: it’s because Julius (ceaser, I think) decided he wanted a month named after him and then Augustus something also wanted a month so they just shoved their way in there.
Although, I’m very glad my birth month is called august instead of sextilius.
Anyone else ever notice that so many battles where fought in the month of October ? Strange to me maybe everyone fought each other before winter set in !
In Ireland 8 is ocht
I've come up with a calendar that not only aligns the month names properly but also conveniently matches the solar declination pattern, which dictates seasons. I do this while acknowledging that the globe is too entrenched in the current calendar to change. But this can at least shed more light on how the sun moves through the sky and how the seasons act.
The solar declination pattern is: Equinox, 12°, 20°, Solstice, 20°, 12°, Equinox, -12°, -20°, Solstice, -20°, -12°, etc.
The Gregorian calendar has that aligned on around the 21st of each month. The significance of 12° is that’s when one of the poles sees the start/end of twilight. The significance of 20° is that’s when the sun moves up/down the sky half as fast as at the equinox. It effectively marks the unofficial start of early summer or early winter. (It's more like 20.2°, but I use 20° for simplicity.)
Here’s my adjustment. Start the year on spring equinox. After all, the Gregorian calendar is designed for the equinox to always land around March 20. So, March is the 1st month and February is the 12th month. That conveniently makes September the 7th month, October the 8th month, etc.
Odd months get 30 days and even months get 31 days. (February would be 30 days except leap years. People may dislike extending February, but keep in mind that the end of February would be equivalent of around March 19.)
Certain holidays could be adjusted. For example, Christmas could fall on December 5 (about 5 days after the solstice) rather than the 25th.
March 20 → March 1
April 19 → April 1
May 20 → May 1
June 19 → June 1
July 20 → July 1
August 19 → August 1
September 19 → September 1
October 19 → October 1
November 19 → November 1
December 19 → December 1
January 19 → January 1
February 18 → February 1
The sun doesn't move through the sky it is an illusion. The sun appears to move as the earth completes its rotations upon its axis.
@@TheSpiritombsableye Yes, thanks for the feedback. But I'm not describing Earth's daily rotation. Rather, I'm referring to the analemma figure the Sun appears to make in the sky as Earth revolves around the Sun. In other words, I'm describing the rise and fall of the Sun's declination circle thru the course of the year, not the Sun's daily path thru the sky.
Motion is relative, and it is much simpler to describe the interaction to a casual observer as the Sun moving thru the sky. If this had been about Earth's rotation, and how the angle of the declination circle changes with respect to latitude, then it'd be a bit easier to describe it from the viewpoint of the Sun. But by all means, if you can think of a way to simply describe what I'm talking about from the viewpoint of the Sun, I'll be very interested!
1:50 NVMA POMPILIVS*
The use of caps was deliberate, not for yelling or anger, but because i wouldnt be correctly correcting Latin spelling if i wasent typing in all uppercase
Although Latin did use lowercase, it is to my knowledge that by that time U and V were separate
I thought I knew the answer: Julius Caesar was cocky and added himself and August right in the middle of the calendar and voila. Guess it was more complicated than that.
Here's my proposal for a new month naming system:
1. Uniuary (also could be Uniember)
2. Duouary (also could be Duoember)
3. Tridember
4. Quadriember
5. Quintilember (also could be Quintils)
6. Sixtilember (also could could be Sixtils)
7. September (Normally 9th)
8. October (Normally 10th)
9. November (Normally 11th)
10. December (Normally 12th)
11. Centember (instead of Undecember to differentiate it from December)
12. Vigintember (instead of Duodecember to differentiate it from December)
This is very good
Oddly enough, I only realised & questioned this recently. My birthday is literally October 8th {1989}
1:06 why is November purple and yellow?
Why couldn’t they have just added 2 months at the end not the start?
I forget where i read this
But initially they do this and change it into january as the 1st month
Christmas would be in the fall? I wonder how that would effect holidays.
@@candicoated2001 No, I think Christmas would still be where it is relative to the end of the year. It's just that we would call that month February.
@@PrezVeto I don't think so. Because other ten months already had their places in year. Even if they put January and February at the end, those months would still be in the part of the year as we know them today.
I believe they originally did add them at the end. March 1st makes more sense with spring in the Northern Hemisphere as the start of the new year and this is why they added leap year dates to the end of February, because it was the end of the year and not the second month.
When you such an egomaniac you make a new month then name it after yourself, but so humble you named a month after your best friend
The first month is named after the god of *d o o r w a y s*
This is literally how I translate between month names and numbers (when dealing with September, October, November and December).
SEPTEMber = 7 + 2 = 9
OCTOber = 8 + 2 = 10
NOVEMber = 9 + 2 = 11
DECEMber = 10 + 2 = 12
Same thing when looking at the number first. Month 9 = 9 - 2 = 7 = SEPTEMber.
Probably worth mentioning that my native language is Portuguese, which is a descendant of Latin. This whole thing is much more evident in Romance languages.
In czech October is „Listopad“
it means something like "Leavesfall" (list = leaf, pád = fall)
"In November leaves fall" („V listopadu padají listy“)
Daniel Dąbczak what is also interesting is that in Croatia some of the months are named like the ones that follow in other Slavic languages, so for them Listopad is in October (and July is in June (lipanj) and our August is in July (srpanj))
So I've heard this before that the year only have 10 months but I guess I didn't realize that after the tenth month there was a no time period? Like no months no days?
Seems so strange, but I guess if I didn't have to keep my time so rigidly and if I couldn't do any work in the winter months I suppose I would have no need to keep track of time during that period... That at least sounds nice, I wish America was more polychronic
How about names of Gregorian months that are unrelated to the Latin names?
e.g. Czech has červen and červenec; listopad is October in Croatian but November in Czech.
Finnish elokuu (lifemonth) is not opposite marraskuu (deathmonth).
What were the first nine weeks of the year called under the ten month calendar?
I rate u put the Partreon names onto two different slides cuz i can’t c them currently.
3:52 Didn't Augustus deify Caesar? That being the case, one could argue that July was still named after a Roman god
Pretty much every emperor was deified by his successor. At least, the early ones.
I don't know about latin but in greek "eight" is still "octo". "Octupus" is consisting from the greek words "octo" and "pus" (modern "pothi") wich means leg. So "octopus" literally means "eight legs"
I have always been wanting to know the answer to this question
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In Canada there's an entire brand called no name
www.noname.ca/en_CA
You could just say that January isn't the `1` month, but the `-1` month, with February being the `0th` month.
Now it makes sense :D
‘These winter months’ is a saying I just can’t relate to in January and February. We call them ‘these summer months’ or more commonly- ‘hot hot hot hot hot cold hot hot hot rainy hot storm storm cold rain hot hot hot- so on’
Huh, I Had heard That The Reason The Numbered Months Don't Line Up With The End Of The Year Is Because January And February Used To Be At The End Of The Year (Which Makes More Sense, As That Way The Entirety Of A Winter Is In One Year, Instead Of Split Between Two), But They Were Later Moved By Some Reason.
Thanks so much for the name explain! Maybe if I was younger and I knew this, I might just not have the annoying problem of memorizing them and having them mixed up! It was just 7-8-9-10 for September to December.
P.S. As a kid, I love etymology.
spot on, thats why october is my favorite month
Wow I just found out where "mercenary" comes from!
I knew about this you’ve talked about this before
I always thought it was named after Octavian, thought he had 2 months
4:16 expect for who (as me) that use Neolithic calendar
They could've put the new months at the end of the year and keep the order and naming intact. The year would just start in spring, or the could make March winter
As you've mentioned, there is another way of naming months in Europe (because I'm kinda sure that it wouldn't be a shocker that Japanese use names with different origins). Slavic languages (some in their archaic form some even in modern, like Croatian) name months based on agricultural events, and it kinda makes a lot of sense in this part of the world, but it's kinda useless for any southern or northern state.
I wish January and Febuary was in the last part if the calendar. So October can still be 8th
Was there actually a Roy G Biv?
I don't believe in Astrology but Leo's being born exclusively in Months named after Julius Caesar and Emperor Agustus is quite hilarious and ironic
I would get rid of months and just count the days from 1 to 365 and add a 366th day every four years.
You misspelled octagon.
Also, the Hebrew calendar still uses a leap month and it falls around the same time. Also, you mentioned that wages were usually paid around February and March. This is when annual bonuses are typically disbursed. Is there a connection there? Did that tradition originate in Ancient Rome?
So why the year did not start in macrh? When added 2 months why not in the end so september,october, november and december will stil be in place
except that the year started on the spring equinox and was changed by the gregorian calendar when the church instituted it. prior to this the year would start on the harvest festival of easter essentially making January and february the 11th and twelfth months.
So rome started with a lunisolar calendar and changed it to a solar calendar
What has been missed from the video is that Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar in 709 AUC so that the days alternated between 31 and 30 days, February had 29 days in a normal year and 30 in a leap year, and he shifted the year start to Kalends Januarius (1 Jan 45 BC); the senate renamed Quintilius in his honour as Julius (July).
When Sextilius was renamed August in honour of Caesar Augustus it was felt that his month should not have fewer days than Julius Caersar's month of July so the days were swapped to give us the pattern we now use.
When Dennis the Little (Dionysius Exiguus) calculated the date of easter for the next 95 years in the year 247 Anno Diocletiani he calculated that Jesus Christ had been born some 531 years earlier and became his base year 1 (as zero had yet to be invented) and so published his tables in the year 532 Anno Domini (aka 532 AD).
At some stage the beginning of the year was changed to 25 March - 9 months before 25 December - the date of Jesus' conception.
This made the year 25 March to 24 March when taxes we due.
When Pope Gregory made his reform to the Julian Calendar to correct for the over insertion of leap days, a number of extra leap days had to be removed from the calendar; at the same time he changed rhe year start back to Julius Caesar's 1st of January.
In the UK the new calendar was finally accepted in 1752 and the extra days (11 by then) were removed in September so that 02/09/1752 was followed by 14/09/1752. When the taxes were due on 25 March 1753 bankers in the city refused to pay until 11 days later on 05/04/1753 - which is still our tax year end?
Februa and Apru were the etruscan names of italic goddesses, if I'm correct they were comparable to Cerere and Venere
Lemme guess: Because it was the 8th month in the ancient Roman calendar?
Luckily for you, you don't have to guess. It's all in the video.
petition to start the year in march so this calendar makes sense cause now this is gonna bug me like crazy
My Latin teacher once told me February came from the Latin name for fever.... febris. Is that wrong?
Do a thing About “ber” month what does iT mean and come from
Patrick:
spells Junius and Januarius with an i's
Also Patrick: doesn't spell Januarius, Februarius, Maius, Julius, or Quintilis
with v's
would be cool if they had gotten around to changing some more of the numbered months Claudius sounds cooler than september to keep with the emperor theme
Claudius would get November.
Would you really want to have months named after Caligula and Nero? As in Christmas on Nero the 25th?
How did we get "July" out of quintus?
What I don't get is why they didn't fix the words for the months in their own language when they added those two. Surely they'd see the glaring flaw more easily than we would.
Why do July and August's original names end in "-tilis" while Sept to Decem end in "-ember"?
What does October have to do with august?
Well October was the 8th month, Julius Caeser named July after him and August after his eldest son Augustus, or at least that is what ive always been told.
really good video
I was born on 10th October so there is no problem writing it in the American and European system. 10/10
Do an explanation to the word catfishing.
comes from the tv show catfish
@@Saturn_Rising oh
Can you do why central powers was called central powers
As someone born in October, thanks 😊 it's because of Julius and Augustus right? I got a sis born in July 😂😂 funnily enough I'm born on my dad's bday and HIS middle name is Augustus. So this vid was nice to have
I've learned this in Latin!
i was just thinking about this today