October

See also: october

English

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Etymology

    Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#OCTOBERCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *oḱtṓw#OCTOBERCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#OCTOBERCategory:English terms derived from Old French#OCTOBERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#OCTOBERCategory:English terms derived from Latin#OCTOBERCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Italic#OCTOBER

    From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#OCTOBERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#OCTOBER, borrowed from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#OCTOBER octobre, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#OCTOBER Octōber (eighth month), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#OCTOBER octō (eight), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#OCTOBER *oḱtṓw (twice four); + LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#OCTOBER -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar.

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    Proper noun

    October (plural Octobers)Category:English lemmas#OCTOBERCategory:English proper nouns#OCTOBERCategory:English countable nouns#OCTOBERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#OCTOBERCategory:Pages with entries#OCTOBERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#OCTOBER

    1. The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November.
      Alternative forms: Oct, Oct., OCT, 8ber, 10
      Synonym: (Quakerism) Tenth Month
      Holonyms: calendar year; year
      Comeronyms: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November, December
      • 2025 July 18, Timothy McLaughlin, “A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border. The Kachin Independence Organization fought for decades in obscurity. Now it's supplying essential minerals to manufacturers around the world”, in Bloomberg Businessweek, archived from the original on 18 July 2025:
        By October it was advancing steadily toward Pangwa, encountering meager resistance.
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    2. (rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#OCTOBER) A female given name transferred from the month nameCategory:English given names#OCTOBERCategory:English female given names#OCTOBERCategory:English female given names from month names#OCTOBER.
      • 2002 January, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 35, number 4, page 138:
        The other one [book] I just read is October Suite by Maxine Clair (Random House, $23.95). It's about a woman named October. She's a young black schoolteacher in the 1950s ...
        Category:English terms with quotations#OCTOBER
      • 2009, C.S. Graham, The Archangel Project, →ISBN, page 31:
        From somewhere in the distance came the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle's siren. Lance flipped open his phone. “Get me the address of a woman named October Guinness . . . That's right, October,” he said again, [...]
        Category:English terms with quotations#OCTOBER

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    Noun

    October (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#OCTOBERCategory:English nouns#OCTOBERCategory:English uncountable nouns#OCTOBERCategory:English uncountable nouns#OCTOBERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#OCTOBERCategory:Pages with entries#OCTOBERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#OCTOBER

    1. (historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#OCTOBER) A type of ale traditionally brewed in October. [from 18th c.]

    Verb

    October (third-person singular simple present Octobers, present participle Octobering, simple past and past participle Octobered)Category:English lemmas#OCTOBERCategory:English verbs#OCTOBERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#OCTOBERCategory:Pages with entries#OCTOBERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#OCTOBER

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    1. Category:en:Soviet Union#OCTOBER(historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#OCTOBER, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#OCTOBER) In the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religious christening.

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    Anagrams

    Category:en:Eight#OCTOBERCategory:en:Months#OCTOBER

    Latin

    Etymology

      Category:Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *oḱtṓw#OCTOBERCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#OCTOBERCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#OCTOBERCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#OCTOBERCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#OCTOBER

      By analogy with September, as if from octō and a suffix -ber. In the Roman calendar, the year began with Mārtius (March), and Octōber was the eighth month of the year.

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      Adjective

      Octōber (feminine Octōbris)Category:Latin lemmas#OCTOBERCategory:Latin adjectives#OCTOBERCategory:Latin third declension adjectives#OCTOBERCategory:Latin third declension adjectives of three terminations#OCTOBERCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#OCTOBERCategory:Pages with entries#OCTOBERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#OCTOBER; third-declension three-termination adjective

      1. of October

      Usage notes

      In Classical Latin, month names were regularly used as adjectives, generally modifying a case-form of mēnsis m sg (month) or of one of the nouns used in the Roman calendar to refer to specific days of the month from which other days were counted: kalendae f pl (calends), nōnae f pl (nones), īdūs f pl (ides). However, the masculine noun mēnsis could be omitted by ellipsis, so the masculine singular forms of month names eventually came to be used as proper nouns.[1]

      The accusative plural adjective forms Aprīlīs, Septembrīs, Octōbrīs, Novembrīs, Decembrīs[2] are ambiguous in writing, being spelled identically to the genitive singular forms of the nouns; nevertheless, the use of ablative singular forms in and comparison with the usage of other month names as adjectives supports the interpretation of -is as an accusative plural adjective ending in Classical Latin phrases such as "kalendas Septembris".[3]

      Declension

      Third-declension three-termination adjective.

      • In medieval and New Latin, the ablative singular can also be found as Octōbre.

      Proper noun

      Octōber m sg (genitive Octōbris)Category:Latin lemmas#OCTOBERCategory:Latin proper nouns#OCTOBERCategory:Latin third declension nouns#OCTOBERCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the third declension#OCTOBERCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#OCTOBERCategory:Latin masculine nouns#OCTOBERCategory:Pages with entries#OCTOBERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#OCTOBER; third declension

      1. October

      Declension

      Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in ), singular only.

      • In medieval and New Latin, the ablative singular can also be found as Octōbre.

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      Unsorted borrowings

      These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.

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      References

      1. Karl Gottlob Zumpt (1853), Leonhard Schmitz, Charles Anthon, transl., A Grammar of the Latin Language, 3rd edition, pages 31, 85
      2. Gaeng, Paul A. (1968), An Inquiry into Local Variations in Vulgar Latin: As Reflected in the Vocalism of Christian Inscriptions, page 183
      3. Frost, P. (1861), The Germania and Agricola of Tacitus, page 161

      Further reading

      • October”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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      Scots

      Etymology

      From LatinCategory:Scots terms derived from Latin#OCTOBER Octōber (of the eighth month).

      Pronunciation

      Proper noun

      OctoberCategory:Scots lemmas#OCTOBERCategory:Scots proper nouns#OCTOBERCategory:Scots entries with incorrect language header#OCTOBERCategory:Pages with entries#OCTOBERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#OCTOBER

      1. October

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