December

december English 1 right 260 Humenné - Námestie slobody - The central square, decorative model thatched cottage with Christmas season decorations (December 2024) 01.jpg The central square of Old Town, Bratislava, featuring a decorative model thatched cottage with Christmas season decorations (December 2024) Ramstein starts holiday season with tree lighting (8151932).jpg A tree lighting ceremony at Ramstein Air Base, Germany to commemorate the holiday season. Attendees are wearing winter clothing. Alternative forms en Dec. Dec DEC Dc abbreviation en Decembre obsolete Etymology en :inh enm:December<ety:bor<fro:decembre>> 1 From en enm December, enm Decembre, from en fro decembre, from en la december tenth month, from en la decem ten; + en la -ber, from la -bris, an adjectival suffix; December was the tenth month in the Roman calendar. Pronunciation en /dɪˈsɛmbə/ RP dĭ-sĕmʹbər US, en /dɪˈsɛm.bɚ/ en en-us-December.ogg US en /ɖɪˈsɛmbə(r)/ /ɖɪsəmˈbɜ(r)/ Indic en /dɪˈzɛmbə/<a:many speakers in Singapore><ref:0-521-28541-0 J. C. Wells Accents of English: Beyond the British Isles Cambridge University Press 1982 646 3> /dɪˈzɛmbər/<a:some speakers in Western Scotland> en ɛmbə(ɹ) 3 Proper noun s en Q126The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice. en Dec<id:Q126> Dec.<id:Q126> DEC<id:Q126> 10ber<id:Q126> mul:12<id:Q126> en Yulemonth<qq:religious or archaic> Twelfth Month Quakerism en calendar year<id:Q3186692> ; year<id:Q577> en January<id:Q108> February<id:Q109> March<id:Q110> April<id:Q118> May<id:Q119> June<id:Q120> July<id:Q121> August<id:Q122> September<id:Q123> October<id:Q124> November<id:Q125> [A3] 12 Old Oakes doe not eaſily fall: / Decembers cold hand combes my head and beard, / But May ſvvimmes in my blood; and he that vvalkes / VVithout his vvooden third legge, is never old. en Richard Collett He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/travel/slowjamastan-micronation 2023-06-08 Wearing his best suit and sunglasses, the sultan of Slowjamastan officially declared independence from the United States of America at 12:26 p.m. on December 1, 2021 as he broadcast the secession live from his open-air government “office” in Dublândia, the capital of the Republic of Slowjamastan. https://web.archive.org/web/20260516010746/https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/travel/slowjamastan-micronation 16 May 2026 en Kamala Thiagarajan If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it! 2025-11-13 https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/11/13/g-s1-97432/world-kindness-day-kind-compassion-empathy NPR It was sparked by reports of an outbreak of kindness on a cold December morning in 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20260828172838/https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/11/13/g-s1-97432/world-kindness-day-kind-compassion-empathy 28 August 2026 en rare en female month names < English. en 2017 Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow Personal Stereo 1501322834 45 But others were less than thrilled with this new gizmo, particularly its addictive qualities. There were reports of breakups threatened and consummated over it. “Our marriage or your Sony,” one woman told her husband, who duly sold the Walkman to a bachelor friend. A young woman named December Cole, a sales executive at a beauty magazine, recalled a trip to Atlantic City with "a basically rude" man who wouldn't stop "bopping around to his own music." en. Hyponyms en mid-December Derived terms en December bride Decemberish Decemberist Decemberly Decembery Decembral Decembrism Decembrist Destroy Dick December May-December Related terms en December effect December Murders December Revolution Decembrist Revolt December Uprising May and December Descendants bi desemba pih Disemba tpi Desemba bn ডিসেম্বর 1 my ဒီဇင်ဘာ 1 ny Disembala 1 cho Tisimba 1 prs دسمبر desembar 1 dv ޑިސެމްބަރު 1 ha Disamba 1 haw Kēkēmapa 1 hi दिसंबर 1 ms Disember 1 mi Tīhema 1 mr डिसेंबर 1 mkj dihjempe 1 sm Tesema 1 sw 1 Desemba Disemba tkl Tēhema 1 Translations twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar Abaza: abq декабрь Abkhaz: ab ԥхынҷкәын Afrikaans: af Desember Akan: ak Ɔpɛnimma Alabama: akz hasiholtina istapókkòolawah tóklo, akz hasiholtina istanóoka Albanian: sq dhjetor m, sq dimëror m, sq shënëndre m Aleut: ale Dikaabrax̂ Alutiiq: ems Qanim Iralua Amharic: am ዲሴምበር Apache: Western Apache: apw Zas Nłtʼees Arabic: ar دِيسِمْبِر disimbir m, ar دِيسَمْبِر disambir m, ar كَانُون الْأَوَّل m Aragonese: an aviento m Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܟܵܢܘܿܢ ܩܲܕ݇ܡܵܝܵܐ m kanon qāmaya Armenian: hy դեկտեմբեր Old Armenian: xcl դեկտեմբեր Aromanian: rup andreu, rup dechemvriu Asturian: ast avientu m, ast diciembre Azerbaijani: az dekabr Basque: eu abendu Belarusian: be сне́жань m, Taraškievica be сьне́жань m Bengali: bn ডিসেম্বর Bikol: Central Bikol: bcl Disyembre Bislama: bi desemba Breton: br Kerzu, br miz Kerzu Bulgarian: bg деке́мври m Burmese: my ဒီဇင်ဘာ, my ဆယ့်နှစ်လ Catalan: ca desembre m Chechen: ce Гӏуран-бутт Cherokee: chr ᎥᏍᎩᏱ Chichewa: ny Disembala Chinese: Cantonese: yue 十二月 sap6 ji6 jyut6 Dungan: dng лайүә, dng шыэрйүә Hakka: hak 十二月 sṳ̍p-ngi-ngie̍t Hokkien: nan-hbl 十二月 cha̍p-jī-go̍eh, cha̍p-jī-ge̍h, cha̍p-jī-gōe, cha̍p-lī-go̍eh, cha̍p-lī-ge̍h, cha̍p-lī-gōe Mandarin: cmn 十二月 shí'èryuè Choctaw: cho Tisimba Chukchi: ckt атъылёкэ atʺyljokė, ckt атъыԓёкэ atʺyḷjokė, ckt ӄууԓьетйъиԓгын quuḷʹetjʺiḷgyn Chuvash: cv раштав Circassian: West Circassian: ady Тыгъэгъаз Coptic: cop ⲇⲉⲕⲉⲙⲃⲣⲓⲟⲥ Cornish: kw Kevardhu m Corsican: co dicembre m, co dicembri m Cree: Atikamekw: atj Pitcipipon pisimw Montagnais: moe pishimuss Czech: cs prosinec m Dakota: dak Wiiakenoŋpa Danish: da december c Dhivehi: dv ޑިސެމްބަރު Dusun: Central Dusun: dtp Momuhau Dutch: nl december m Old Dutch: odt heilmānoth Dzongkha: dz སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ། Emilian: egl dṡàmmber m Erzya: myv ацамков Esperanto: eo decembro, eo Decembro Estonian: et detsember Ewe: ee Dzome, ee Dezember Faroese: fo desember m, fo desembur m Fijian: fj Tiseba Finnish: fi joulukuu Franco-Provençal: frp dècembro French: fr décembre m Frisian: North Frisian: Föhr-Amrum: frr deetsember m Mooring: frr jülmoune m, frr detsämber m Saterland Frisian: stq Dezember West Frisian: fy desimber, fy wintermoanne Friulian: fur Dicembar m, fur Disembar m Galician: gl decembro m, gl nadal m Georgian: ka დეკემბერი German: de Dezember m, de Julmond m Alemannic German: gsw Dezember m Gilbertese: gil Ritembwa Greek: el Δεκέμβριος m, el Δεκέμβρης m Greenlandic: kl decembari Guarani: Paraguayan Guarani: gug jasypakõi Guianese Creole: gcr désanm Haitian Creole: ht desanm Hausa: ha Disamba Hawaiian: haw Kēkēmapa Hebrew: he דצמבר m detsémber דֶּצֶמְבֶּר Hindi: hi दिसम्बर m Hungarian: hu december Icelandic: is desember m, is desembermánuður m Ido: io decembro Ilocano: ilo Disiembre Indonesian: id Desember Ingrian: izh dekabri, izh talvikuu obsolete Interlingua: ia decembre Inuktitut: iu ᑎᓯᒻᐳᕆ Inupiaq: ik Uyaliġvik, ik Siqiñġiḷaq Irish: ga Mí na Nollag m Italian: it dicembre m Jamaican Creole: jam Disemba Japanese: ja 十二月 じゅうにがつ, jūnigatsu, ja 師走 しわす, shiwasu Javanese: jv Dhésèmber, jv Désèmber Kabuverdianu: kea Dezembru Badiu, kea D'zembr' São Vicente, kea dizenbru Kalmyk: xal барс сар, xal бар сар Kambera: xbr wulang hakambulu dàmbu Kapampangan: pam kalabin-aduang búlan, pam Désiembiri Kazakh: kk желтоқсан Khmer: km ធ្នូ Kikuyu: ki Gatumu Kongo: kg desembele Korean: ko 십이월(十二月) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ckb کانوونی یەکەم Kyrgyz: ky декабрь Ladin: lld dezember Lakota: lkt Tȟahékapšuŋ wí, lkt Waníčhoka wí Lao: lo ເດືອນທັນວາ Latin: la december Latvian: lv decembris m Lezgi: lez фандукӏ Limburgish: li December m Lingala: ln dɛsɛ́mbɛ Lithuanian: lt gruodis m Livonian: liv detsembõr Low German: Dutch Low Saxon: nds-nl december German Low German: nds-de Dezember m, nds-de Juulmaand m Luxembourgish: lb Dezember m, lb Chrëschtmount m Maasai: mas ɨn-tʉŋʉ́s Macedonian: mk деке́мври m Malay: ms Disember Malayalam: ml ഡിസംബർ Maltese: mt Diċembru m Manchu: mnc ᠵᠣᡵᡤᠣᠨ ᠪᡳᠶᠠ jorgon biya, mnc ᠵᠣᡵᡥᠣᠨ ᠪᡳᠶᠠ Manx: gv Mee ny Nollick Māori: mi Tīhema Marathi: mr डिसेंबर Mingrelian: xmf ქირსეთუთა Mirandese: mwl Dezembre m Mòcheno: mhn schantònderer m Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn арван хоёрдугаар сар Navajo: nv Níłchʼitsoh Neapolitan: nap deciémbro, nap dicèmbre Niuean: niu Tesemo Northern Sotho: nso Manthole Norwegian: Bokmål: nb desember m Nynorsk: nn desember m Occitan: oc decembre m Odia: or ଡିସେମ୍ବର Ojibwe: oj manidoo-giizisoons Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: cu стоуденъ m Old English: ang ǣrra ġēola m, ang December Oromo: om Muddee Ossetian: os декабрь Pannonian Rusyn: rsk децембер m Pashto: ps سامبر m disãmbar, ps دسمبر m desambar Pennsylvania German: pdc Dezember, pdc Grischtmonet, pdc Grischtmunet Persian: fa دسامبر desâmbr, fa دسمبر disimbar Dari Dari: prs دِسِمْبَر Iranian Persian: fa-ira دِسامْبْر Plautdietsch: pdt Dezamba m Polabian: pox ardĕmond m Polish: pl grudzień m-in Portuguese: pt dezembro m Punjabi: pa ਦਸੰਬਰ m Romagnol: rgn dizèmbar m, rgn dezémbar m Romanian: ro decembrie, pop ro undrea Romansh: rm december m, rm dezember m, rm schember m Russian: ru дека́брь m Sami: Kildin Sami: sjd та̄лльвма̄нн, sjd коаммыййма̄нн Skolt Sami: sms rosttovmään Samoan: sm Tesema Sardinian: Campidanese: sc nadali m, sc nadabi, sc mesi de paschixèdda m Logudorese: sc nadàle m, sc mese de ’idas m, sc meseidas Scots: sco December Scottish Gaelic: gd Dùbhlachd f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh дѐце̄мбар m, sh про̀синац m Croatia Latin: sh dècēmbar m, sh pròsinac m Croatia Shona: sn Zvita Sicilian: scn dicèmmiru m, scn decèmmiru m, scn dicembri m Sinhalese: si දෙසැම්බර් Slovak: sk december m Slovene: sl decêmber m Sotho: st Tshitwe Southern Altai: alt декабрь Spanish: es diciembre m Sundanese: su Désémber Swahili: sw Desemba Swazi: ss íNgongóni Swedish: sv december c Tagalog: tl Disyembre Tahitian: ty tītema Tajik: tg декабр Tamil: ta டிசம்பர் Tatar: tt декабрь Telugu: te డిసెంబరు Tetum: tet dezembru Thai: th ธันวาคม Tok Pisin: tpi disemba Tongan: to Tisema Turkish: tr aralık, tr kânunuevvel archaic, tr yeldoksan Ottoman Turkish: ota آرالق aralık Turkmen: tk dekabr Udmurt: udm толсур Ukrainian: uk гру́день m Ulithian: uli Dumwur Urdu: ur دِسَمْبَر m Uyghur: ug دېكابىر, ug دېكابر, ug ئون ئىككىنچى ئاي Uzbek: uz dekabr Venetan: vec disenbre Veps: vep talʹvku Vietnamese: vi tháng Mười hai, vi tháng Mười Hai, vi tháng mười hai Volapük: vo dekul Võro: vro joulukuu Walloon: wa decimbe Welsh: cy Rhagfyr m Winnebago: win Caa hee wakšų wiira Wolaytta: wal Duubbalaa Wolof: wo Disembar Yakut: sah Ахсынньы Yiddish: yi דעצעמבער m Yup'ik: esu Uivik Zazaki: zza Gağan, zza Gağane, zza Kanun Zulu: zu uZibandlela, zu uDisemba Zuni: zun Ik'ohbu Yachunne Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, December is the 97210th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 187 individuals. December is most common among White (57.22%) and Black/African American (32.09%) individuals. See also en Undecimber References Further reading december Anagrams en bcdeeemr Decembre en Months Ten Latin Alternative forms la december alternative case form la Decembrius Medieval Latin Etymology la decem<id:ten> la, perhaps by haplologyla 1 of earlier la *deke(m)-mēmbris of or pertaining to the tenth month, from la *deke(m)-mēnzris, from la decem ten + la *mēnzris, from la *mēnzlis, from itc-pro *mēns month *-elis<alt:*-lis> 1; see la decem, and la mēnsis. In the Roman calendar, the year began with la Mārtius March, and December was the tenth month of the year. Pronunciation Adjective December<3+> 1 of en December 59 - 17 — Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, Book XXII postremo Decembri iam mense ad aedem Saturni Romae immolatum est. finally in the middle of the month of December there was a sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn. Usage notes Declension December<3+> Decembrēs/Decembrīs Decembrēs/Decembrīs 1 In New Latin, the ablative singular can also be found as la Decembre. Proper noun December<3> m la twelfth month en December la December mensis 1283 — Tomazina de Savere, published in Josip Lučić (1984) Spisi Dubrovačke Kancelarije, Knjiga II, page 310. la Die tercio decembris — On the third day of December Declension December<3.abl-i> Descendants Italo-Dalmatian co dicembre 1 it dicembre egl dicèmber 1 lij dixénbre 1 lmo dicember 1 nap deciémbro dicèmbre roa-tar decèmmre scn dicèmmiru 1 mt Diċembru 1 Padanian: egl dṡàmmber dzèmbar gèmbar giämbar fur dicembar lld dezember lij dexénbre lmo dezèmber dezèmbre pms dzèmber dzèmbri zèmbr gèmbr rgn dizèmbar dissèmbre dissèmbar rm dezember schember 1 vec disenbre Southern Gallo-Romance: an diciembre oc decembre oc-gas deceme roa-oca decembre dehembre deembre ca desembre Influenced by ca desè Ibero-Romance: roa-ole ast diciembre ext diziembri mwl dezembre osp deziembre diziembre lad disiembre dizyembre es diciembre la-vul *decembriu 1 Northern Gallo-Romance: frp dècembro Ibero-Romance: roa-opt dezembro Borrowings 1 grc-koi Δεκέμβριος 1 gmh december 1 xcl դեկտեմբեր 1 fro decembre 1 ro decembrie 1 sq dhjetor calque 1 cim sègante maanont calque Unsorted borrowings These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology. Africa Northern and Horn am ዲሴምበር kab dujember so Diseembar Subsaharan ee Dezember ig Disemba kg desembele ln dɛsɛ́mbɛ mg Desambra tum disembala wo Disembar Americas kl decembari iu ᑎᓯᒻᐳᕆ Asia and Oceania Central and Western Asia ar دِيسَمْبَر ka დეკემბერი he דצמבר (detzémber) South Asia gu ડિસેમ્બર kn ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ or ଡିସେମ୍ବର ps سامبر disãmbar دسمبر desambar si දෙසැම්බර් ta டிசம்பர் te డిసెంబరు Southeast Asia and Oceania ban Désémber bjn Disimbir fj Tiseba gil Ritembwa gor Desember jv Dhésèmber min Desember sm tesema su Désémber ty tītema Europe hu december Baltic lv decembris liv detsembõr Germanic da december nl december nds-nl december fo desember nds-de Dezember is desember ksh Dezemmber Dezämber Dezämmbo li dieëtsember desember frr deetsember detsämber no - nb desember stq Dezember sv december vls december fy desimber Slavic bg декември dsb december mk декември rue децембер sh decembar / sh децембар sk december sl december hsb december See also Roman calendar References la haplological words la Months Old English Pronunciation December Proper noun m en December Synonyms ang ǣrra ġēola See also References December 007514 ang Months Scots Proper noun sco Dezember