calendas
Portuguese, noun/kaˈlẽ.dɐs/
calendas is spelled C-A-L-E-N-D-A-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese, the 119,611th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calendas is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “calends (the first day of the Roman month)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o primeiro dia de cada mês, entre os romanos”.
What does calendas mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecalends (the first day of the Roman month)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o primeiro dia de cada mês, entre os romanos
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce calendas?
- Brazil /kaˈlẽ.dɐs/
- /kaˈlẽ.dɐʃ/
- Portugal /kɐˈlẽ.dɐʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to calendas
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calendas in Portuguese?
calendas appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).