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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Word Origins nineteen. All right. In this

  • video we're going to cover the origins of the names of the months. How did the

  • names of the months get their names ? It goes all the way back to Roman times and goes

  • back to the Roman calendar. Julius Caesar of course was very influential in a

  • number of ways with this too. So let's look at the first one. January

  • January comes from a god or goddess in this case. Janus, God of the beginnings.

  • Janus is often depicted ... so she's often shown with two faces like one looking

  • one way one looking the other way. So one looking back at the year before. One

  • looking into the future. In the other you know, for the next year, for the coming

  • year. So two faces looking backward and forward . So I think Julius Caesar actually

  • changed that and made that the name of the month for this goddess. February

  • comes actually for not a god or goddess but for a festival. Februa, the Feast of

  • purification. You know, they so they had a lot of the

  • feasts to do with you know purifying oneself.

  • March, March or maritus, month of Mars, the planet. So Mars is have, March is actually

  • named after Mars the planet . Mars festivals were held in March in the old

  • Roman times too, So that's why they named it after that, and then we also have Mars.

  • Mars is also a god. Mars was also the god of War. So maybe that's what they had

  • festivals about. So yeah so you know. If you ever know any of the old Greek and

  • Roman gods. Mars was always god of War. So, so this came from both the planet and

  • the god. I guess so we got March. Okay. April, April there's a little bit of a debate

  • about it. Some people say the name comes from the goddess of love, Aphrodite. So

  • April Aphrodite looks a little similar, but there's some, there are others that

  • disagree with this. Some say this name comes from the word

  • aperire which meant to open in the old Latin The month in which buds opened, the

  • flowers opened. So maybe that's how a lot of people think this is more likely that

  • it came from this one. Okay. Let's look at May. May is from the Greek goddess of

  • spring Maia. Maia, so Maya that's where we got May from, So from

  • another goddess. All right. June also from a goddess June for Juno queen of the

  • goddesses, wife of Jupiter. So this is the Greek name remember when the Romans

  • conquered the Greeks they changed some of their names. So I think like later on

  • the, the, the Roman one . I think they changed it to Zeus I think it might have

  • been Zeus and Hera but sometimes you hear different names from it. But but we

  • got this one specifically from the Greek name of that goddess. So the goddess Juno

  • Queen the goddeses, s wife of Jupiter goddess of marriage or childhood good.

  • All right. Now July July comes directly from Julius Caesar. They think they did it

  • after he died in honor of him. So they kind of squeezed it in there and so

  • named after Julius Caesar in 44 BC July was also the month of his birth too, So it

  • had a double reason for kind of squeezing it in. All right. August , August was

  • the Emperor that came directly after Julius Caesar. The emperor was Augustus.

  • So this is named their Augustus in 8 BC. All right. So this what we got July and

  • August or named after emperors . Now ironically the original Roman calendar

  • had 10 months. Then they ended up adding two months to it. They added I think July

  • and they added August. But uh so September October and November is really

  • pretty simple it just comes from the Latin numbers for 7,

  • 8, 9, 10. So in Latin septum is 7, octo is

  • eight, novem is nine decem is ten. So September came from septum. October came

  • from octo. November came from novem and December came from Decem, in the old

  • Roman calendar. So that , that's where it comes from. I know in high school I

  • studied Latin. So I always remember that I picked up on that right away, That's

  • September, October, November, December. But it's all way off to sayi this is supposed

  • to be eleven, twelve. But no. The old Roman calendar originally only had ten months.

  • Okay. Anyway, I hope you found it interesting. I hope , hope it was you know, food

  • for thought. Thank you for your time. Bye- bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Word Origins nineteen. All right. In this

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