Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eastermonth

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: east-er-month
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The typical month of the Paschal cycle; Paschal month; the month in which Easter typically occurs; April.

Example Sentences

"It is pretended that it is a heathen institution, or copied from a heathen institution; which reflection is derived from the circumstance of there having been a goddess called by different writers Aoster, Eoster, Eostre, Oster, or Easter, whose feast was celebrated in the month of April, which was thence called Easter Month."
"Charlemagne called April the Easter month, because it is the month in which Easter usually falls."
"April, the "Easter month" of the Saxon, the season of renewed life in the outside world, is, by some nations, reckoned as the beginning of the new year."
"When the month that we call Eastermonth is over, then the night lasts ten hours and the day fourteen hours."
"On this Easter month we have for several years sent out to the friends of our Society a little booklet of real pictures, showing some of the many lines of our work among the poor."
"However, we find nineteen [and five] nights from the time that Eastermonth comes, the cycle revolves eke to the day when eager with song fervent with words we worship, [...]"

Etymology

Calque of Old English Ēastermōnaþ (“April”, literally “Easter-month”), equivalent to Easter + month. Cognate with Old Dutch ōstermānoth (“April”), German Ostermonat (“April”, literally “Easter-month”) (cp. German Ostermond (“April”, literally “Easter-moon”)).

Inflected Forms

Easter month (alternative) Easter-month (alternative)

Questions

What does eastermonth mean?: The typical month of the Paschal cycle; Paschal month; the month in which Easter typically occurs; April.
Where does eastermonth come from?: Calque of Old English Ēastermōnaþ (“April”, literally “Easter-month”), equivalent to Easter + month. Cognate with Old Dutch ōstermānoth (“April”), German Ostermonat (“April”, literally “Easter-month”) (cp. German Ostermond (“April”, literally “Easter-moon”)).

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