ides

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   in the Roman calendar, the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October and the thirteenth day of every other month

   Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March.

From Middle English ides and Old French ides, from Latin idus, a plural-only calendar term. Its deeper origin is uncertain and may be Etruscan; Roman recurring calendar days were conventionally treated as plurals.

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