january
/ˈd͡ʒæn.juˌɛɹi/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.09 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The first month of the Gregorian calendar, following the December of the previous year and preceding February.
name
A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].
Example Sentences
- "Holonyms: calendar year; year"
- "01/01/09 : Thursday, 1st January(,) 2009."
- "American style: Thursday, January 1st, 2009."
- "I hate Januarys: it's always too cold."
- "I get sick a lot in the winter, so I spent this past January as I’ve spent many Januaries before it — in bed with a standard-issue flu."
- "The Louisville Metro Police Department terminated Detective Myles Cosgrove in January for use of deadly force for firing 16 rounds into Taylor’s home and failing to activate his body camera, according to a copy of his termination letter."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-no- Proto-Italic *jānos Latin iānus Latin Iānus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -ārius Latin Iānuāriusder. Anglo-Norman geneverbor. Middle English Janevere Middle English Januarie English January From Middle English Januarie, januari, re-latinised forms of Middle English Janevere, Ieneuer, from Anglo-Norman genever, from Latin Iānuārius (“(month) of Janus”), a compound of Iānus ("Janus") + -ārius (adjectival suffix), with the first element perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European root *yeh₂- (“to go”). Doublet of Gennaro.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈd͡ʒæn.juˌɛɹi/
- British English: /ˈd͡ʒæn.jʊ.ə.ɹi/
Inflected Forms
Januaries (plural)
Januarys (plural)
Jan (alternative, abbreviation)
Jan. (alternative, abbreviation)
Derived Forms
Phrases
Black January
Dry January
January 6
January Club
January disease
January effect
January Events
January indicator