neomenia

English

Etymology

From Latin neomēnia.

Noun

neomenia

  1. The time of the new moon; the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.
    • 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 3 Kinges VI:(please specify the verse(s)), page 707:
      The ſecond, Neomenia, or new moon, in which day they alwaies beganne the moneth; and twelue ſuch monethes made a yeare, by the courſe of the moone; for by the courſe of the ſunne, the yeare conteineth eleuven dayes more, which in three yeares make abouve a moneth.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “neomenia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νεομηνία (neomēnía).

Noun

neomēnia f (genitive neomēniae); first declension

  1. new moon

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative neomēnia neomēniae
genitive neomēniae neomēniārum
dative neomēniae neomēniīs
accusative neomēniam neomēniās
ablative neomēniā neomēniīs
vocative neomēnia neomēniae

References

  • “neomenia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • neomenia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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