![]() ![]() ![]() A few passages coil toward melodrama, and one inelegant line after a rape seems jarringly modern, but the spell holds fast. All the while, the supernatural sits intriguingly alongside the tonic of ordinary things. ĭecembrist, in Russian history in reference to the insurrection against Nicholas I in December 1825, is by 1868 in English, translating Russian dekabrist, from dekabr' "December. Circe’s fascination with mortals becomes the book’s marrow and delivers its thrilling ending. "forming the tenth part or division," from *mer. ![]() Perhaps, however, from *de-cem(o)-mr-is, i.e. October must then be by analogy from a false division Sep-tem-ber &c. December (Dec) is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. Tucker thinks that the first five months were named for their positions in the agricultural cycle, and "after the gathering in of the crops, the months were merely numbered." If the word contains an element related to mensis, we must assume a *decemo-membris (from *-mensris). ![]() The -ber in four Latin month names is probably from -bris, an adjectival suffix. An ordinal number is a number that is used to indicate some order or position. In his new collection, Tenth of December, short-story master George Saunders quirky blend of dystopian fiction and dark satire is tempered by a new gravity. "twelfth and last (by modern reckoning) month of the calendar, the month of the winter solstice," late Old English, from Old French decembre, from Latin December, from decem "ten" (from PIE root *dekm- "ten") tenth month of the old Roman calendar, which began with March. The term tenth is also used to describe the ordinal number between ninth (9th) and eleventh (11th). ![]()
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