nundinal letter
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
nundinal letter (plural nundinal letters)
- (Ancient Rome) one of the first eight letters of the alphabet, repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year. One of these always corresponded to the market day, which occurred every eight days.
References[edit]
- “nundinal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.