calends

Meaning

Noun

• Often with initial capital: the first day of a month
• A day for settling debts and other accounts.
• Synonym of Rosh Hodesh
• Synonym of calendar; an account, a record.
• The first day of something; a beginning.
• Plural of calend

Origin

• From Middle English calendes, calendas, calendis, kalandes, kalendas, kalendes, kalendez, kalendis, kalendus (also in the singular forms calende, kalend, kalende), from Latin kalendās, accusative plural of kalendae,
• Sense 2 (“a day for settling debts and other accounts”) refers to the Roman practice of fixing the calends as the day for debts to be paid.