month

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 mŭnth

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
    — July is my favourite month.
  2. A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
    — Holonyms: bimester < trimester < quadrimester < semester < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
  3. A woman's period; menstrual discharge. in-plural,obsolete
    — Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months.

词形变化

months plural month UK,colloquial,plural moneth alternative

词汇关系

近义词
month
上位词
period
衍生词
13th month ber month birth month bissextile month calendar month draconic month draconitic month dump months Eastermonth ember months fence month flavor of the month flavour of the month gander month halfmonth honey-month intermonth intramonth leap month light month lunar month man-month midmonth month by month monther monthful monthiversary monthling month-long monthlong monthly month mind month of consecution month of Sundays monthsary month's end monthslong months-long month's mind month to date moon month multimonth never in a month of Sundays nodical month periodic month person-month pinch and a punch for the first of the month Platonic month R month Roman month run of month sidereal month six-month club stellar month synodic month that time of the month this day six months time of the month tropical month twelvemonth worm month yestermonth Yulemonth
相关词
calendar :Category:Months Appendix:Months of the Islamic year Appendix:Months of the Chinese Year
部分词
week day

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥sder.
Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs
Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ
Old English mōnaþ
Middle English mon(e)th
English month
From Middle English mon(e)th, from Old English mōnaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably derived from *meh₁- (“measure”) with moon-cycles being used to measure time. Related to moon. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mound (“month”), Dutch maand (“month”), German Low German Maand (“month”), German Monat (“month”), Danish måned (“month”), Swedish månad (“month”), Icelandic mánuður (“month”).
Eclipsed non-native Old English calend (“month”), borrowed from Latin calendae.
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