Month : Meaning<\/p>\n
January<\/strong> : Januarius<\/em> (latin), after Janus, the Roman god who faces two ways and was often represented on doorways.<\/p>\n February<\/strong> : Februarius<\/em> (latin), taken from Februa, a purification rite that took place on Feb 15th.<\/p>\n March<\/strong> : Martius<\/em> (latin), named after Mars, the Roman god of war.<\/p>\n April<\/strong> : Aprilis<\/em> (Latin) “to open” : blossoming flowers.<\/p>\n May<\/strong> : Maius<\/em> (larin), after the goddess Maia or “majores” (‘elders’) and referring to a period when older people were honored.<\/p>\n June<\/strong> : Junius<\/em> (latin), named after the goddess Jno or “iuniores (young people) indicating a period when youth was celebrated.<\/p>\n July<\/strong> : Named after Gaius Julius Caesar.<\/p>\n August<\/strong> : Named after Agustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor.<\/p>\n September<\/strong> : Septem<\/em> (latin), meaning ‘seven’ originally the 7th month in the Roman calendar.<\/p>\n October<\/strong> : Octo<\/em> (latin), meaning ‘eight’ originally the 8th month in the Roman calendar.<\/p>\n November<\/strong> : Novem<\/em> (latin), meaning ‘nine’ originally the 9th month in the Roman calendar.<\/p>\n December<\/strong> : Decem<\/em> (latin) meaning ‘ten – originally the 10th month in the Roman calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Month : Meaning January : Januarius (latin), after Janus, the Roman god who faces two ways and was often represented on doorways. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,150,152],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists","tag-calendar","tag-meanings","tag-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}