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Where did octobers name come from?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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October means "eighth month" in Latin. The Roman calendar began in March, so October was eighth.

After the beginning of the year was brought forward to January, the names of the last four months were not changed, even though it was no longer true that they were seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth.

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