nundinal letter
nundinal letter - English
Noun
nundinal letter (plural nundinal letters)
- In Ancient Rome, one of the first eight letters of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year. One of these always expressed the market day, which returned every nine days (every eight days by our reckoning).
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for nundinal letter under nundinal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)