English Dictionary

calends

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkæləndz/

名詞

複数形 複数形のみ 古代ローマ 歴史的 広義 ユダヤ教 廃用 稀用 比喩的用法

Often with initial capital: the first day of a month / (historical, Ancient Rome) the first day of a month of the Roman calendar. / (by extension) A day for settling debts and other accounts.

日本語の意味

月の初日、すなわちある月の最初の日 / 古代ローマにおける月の初日（債務や勘定を決済する日）

The historian noted that taxes were due on the calends of each month.

歴史家は、税金が毎月の初日に支払われると記していた。

意味（1）

Often with initial capital: the first day of a month

意味（2）

(historical, Ancient Rome) the first day of a month of the Roman calendar.

意味（3）

(by extension) A day for settling debts and other accounts.

To expedite theſe knots were worthy a learned and memorable Synod; while our enemies expect to ſee the expectation of the Church tir'd out with dependencies and independencies how they will compound, and in what Calends.

意味（4）

(by extension, biblical, Judaism, obsolete) Synonym of Rosh Hodesh (“the Jewish festival of the new moon, which begins the months of the Hebrew calendar”)

The feasts of the Israelites were the Sabbath; the first day of each month, called in our translations calends, or new-moon; the three great feasts of the passover, pentecost, and tabernacles, instituted in memory of the three greatest blessings they received from God, …

意味（5）

(rare) Synonym of calendar; (figuratively) an account, a record.

… now doth [John] Oldcastle shine: / Him for a Saint within your Kalends hold.

意味（6）

(figuratively, obsolete) The first day of something; a beginning.

Whoever shall sell a calf or a yearling, let him be answerable against the scab from the calends of winter until the Feast of Patrick.