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Webster 1913 Edition


Nundinal

Nun′di-nal

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Noun.
A nundinal letter.

Webster 1828 Edition


Nundinal

NUN'DINAL

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Adj.
[L., a fair or market, every nine days.]
1.
Pertaining to a fair or to a market day.
2.
A nundinal letter, among the Romans, was one of the eight first letters of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last dya of the year. One of these always expressed the market days, which returned every nine days.

NUN'DINAL

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Noun.
A nundinal letter.

Definition 2024


nundinal

nundinal

English

Adjective

nundinal (comparative more nundinal, superlative most nundinal)

  1. Of or pertaining to a nundine

Noun

nundinal (plural nundinals)

  1. A nundinal letter.
    • 1823, Encyclopaedia Britannica: Volume 15 (page 99)
      These nundinals bear a very great resemblance to the dominical letters, which return every eight days, as the nundinals did every nine.