month – English noun declension

English noun forms of month

Noun: month
Singularmonth
Pluralmonths

Sample Sentences

  • July is my favourite month.
  • Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month. [2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:]
  • Holonyms: bimester < trimester < quadrimester < semester < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
  • Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight
  • We went on holiday for two months.
  • Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour. [1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:]
  • With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury. [2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:]
  • The demolition of two mosques in India within days of each other has highlighted the deep religious divide in the country, months before voters head to the polls for a nationwide election that is expected to hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi a rare third term in power. [2024 February 15, Aishwarya S Iyer and Rhea Mogul, “‘Erasing a part of history’ – What a double mosque demolition tells us about India ahead of crucial election”, in CNN:]
  • Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months. [1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:]

Nouns inflected like month

furlong, schnitzel, month, pound, bushel, acre, lion, mile, pair, year, yard,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥sder.
4. Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs
5. Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ
6. Old English mōnaþ
7. Middle English mon(e)th
8. English month
9. From Middle English mon(e)th, from Old English mōnaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably derived from *meh₁- (“measure”) with moon-cycles being used to measure time. Related to moon. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mound (“month”), Dutch maand (“month”), German Low German Maand (“month”), German Monat (“month”), Danish måned (“month”), Swedish månad (“month”), Icelandic mánuður (“month”).
10. Eclipsed non-native Old English calend (“month”), borrowed from Latin calendae. See: Middle English Nouns 'moneth', Dutch Nouns 'maand', German Nouns 'Monat', Danish Nouns 'måned', Swedish Nouns 'månad', Icelandic Nouns 'mánuður'.

Verbs referencing "month"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns månad, Latin Nouns mensis, German Nouns Monat, Latvian Nouns mēnesis, Latvian Nouns mēness, Ancient Greek Nouns μείς.