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SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 653 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

SEPTEMBER (See also:
LAT
Lat. septem, seven) , the seventh See also:

month of the old See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

YEAR

year, in which it had See also:

THIRTY

thirty days assigned to it. In the See also:

JULIAN (FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS) (331-363)

Julian See also:

CALENDAR

calendar, while retaining its former name and number of days, it became the ninth month. The Ludi Magni (Ludi Romani) in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

JUPITER

Jupiter, See also:

JUNO

Juno and See also:

MINERVA

Minerva began on the 4th of September. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal ecclesiastical feasts falling within the month are: the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin on the 8th, the Exaltation of the See also:

HOLY

Holy See also:

CROSS

Cross on the 14th, St See also:

Matthew the apostle on the 21st, and St See also:

Michael the See also:

archangel on the 29th. September was called " See also:

HARVEST (A.S. hcerfest " autumn," O.H. Ger. herbist, possibly through an old Teutonic root representing Lat. car pere, " to pluck ")

harvest month " in See also:

Charlemagne's calendar, and it corresponds partly to the Fructidor and partly to the Vendemiaire of the first See also:

French See also:

REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic. The Anglo-See also:

SAXONS

Saxons called the month Gerstmonath, See also:

BARLEY (Hordeum sativum)

barley month, that See also:

CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop being then usually harvested. It is still called Herbstmonat, harvest month, in See also:

SWITZERLAND

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