October

See also: october

English

Alternative forms

Octobre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French octobre, from Latin octōber (“eighth month”), from Latin octō (“eight”), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw (“twice four”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɒkˈtəʊbə/
(US) enPR: äk-tōʹbər, IPA^(key): /ɑkˈtoʊbəɹ/, [ɑkˈtʰoʊbɚ]
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -əʊbə(ɹ)

Proper noun

October (plural Octobers)

The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November. Abbreviation: Oct.
(rare) A female given name from English.
- 2002 January, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 35, number 4, page 138:
  The other one [book] I just read is October Suite by Maxine Clair (Random House, $23.95). It's about a woman named October. She's a young black schoolteacher in the 1950s ...
- 2009, C.S. Graham, The Archangel Project, →ISBN, page 31:
  From somewhere in the distance came the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle's siren. Lance flipped open his phone. “Get me the address of a woman named October Guinness . . . That's right, October,” he said again, [...]

Derived terms

humming October
Octobral
mid-October
October beer
October-bird
October effect
Octoberfest
Octoberist, Octobrist
October Revolution
October surprise
October War
Red October

Descendants

Bislama: oktoba
Pitcairn-Norfolk: Oktoeba
Tok Pisin: Oktoba
→ Bengali: অক্টোবর (ôkṭobôrô)
→ Burmese: အောက်တိုဘာ (auktuibha)
→ Chichewa: Okutobala
→ Dari: اکتوبر‎ (oktôbar)
- → Urdu: اکتوبر‎ (aktūbar)
→ Hausa: Oktoba
→ Hawaiian: ʻOkakopa
→ Hindi: अक्टूबर (akṭūbar), अक्तूबर (aktūbar)
→ Malay: Oktober
→ Maori: Oketopa
→ Marshallese: Oktoba
→ Niuean: Okitopa
→ Serer: Oktoba
→ Shughni: اکتوبر (oktobar)
→ Swahili: Oktoba
→ Tokelauan: Oketopa
→ Tongan: ʻOkatopa
→ Wallisian: ʻOkitopa
→ Xamtanga: Oktoobar

Translations

tenth month of the Gregorian calendar

Abaza: октябрь (oktjabrʲ)
Abkhaz: жьҭаара (žtaara)
Adyghe: чъэпыогъу (ĉepəwoğʷu)
Afrikaans: Oktober (af)
Alabama: hasiholtina ispókkòoli
Albanian: tetor (sq) m
Alutiiq: Kakegllum Iralua
Amharic: ኦክተውበር (ʾoktäwbär)
Apache:
Western Apache: Gha̜a̜zhįʼ, Itsáh Bizhaazh
Arabic: أَكْتُوبَر‎ (ar) m (ʔaktobar), تِشْرِين الْأَوَّل‎ m (tišrīn al-ʔawwal)
Aragonese: otubre (an) m
Armenian: հոկտեմբեր (hy) (hoktember)
Old Armenian: հոկտեմբեր (hoktember)
Aromanian: sãmedru
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܸܫܪܝܼܢ ܩܲܕ݇ܡܵܝܵܐ‎ m (tišrīn qāmaya)
Asturian: ochobre (ast) m
Atikamekw: Namekosi pisimw
Azerbaijani: oktyabr (az)
Basque: urri (eu)
Belarusian: кастры́чнік (be) m (kastrýčnik)
Bengali: অক্টোবর (bn) (ôkṭobôrô)
Bislama: oktoba
Breton: Here (br), miz Here
Bulgarian: окто́мври (bg) m (októmvri)
Burmese: အောက်တိုဘာ (my) (auktuibha), ဆယ်လ (hcaila.)
Buryat: арбадахи һара (arbadaxi hara), арбадугаар һара (arbadugaar hara)
Catalan: octubre (ca) m
Central Dusun: Gumas
Chechen: Гӏадужу-бутт (Ğadužu-butt)
Cherokee: ᏚᏂᏅᏗ (duninvdi)
Chichewa: Okutobala
Chinese:
Cantonese: 十月 (sap⁶ jyut⁶)
Dungan: шийүә (šiyüə)
Hakka: 十月 (sṳ̍p-ngie̍t)
Mandarin: 十月 (zh) (shíyuè)
Min Nan: 十月 (cha̍p-go̍eh, cha̍p-ge̍h, cha̍p-gōe)
Chukchi: гытгайъэлгын (gytgajʺėlgyn), гытгайъэԓгын (gytgajʺėḷgyn),
Chuvash: юпа (jup̬a)
Coptic: ⲟⲕⲧⲱⲃⲣⲓⲟⲥ (oktōbrios)
Corsican: uttrovi (co) m, ottobre (co) m
Czech: říjen (cs) m
Dakota: Wi iwikcemna
Danish: oktober (da) c
Dhivehi: އޮކްޓޫބަރު‎ (dv) (ok̊ṭūbaru)
Dutch: oktober (nl) m
Dzongkha: སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ། (spyi zla bcu gnyis pa)
Erzya: ожоков (ožokov)
Esperanto: oktobro (eo), Oktobro
Estonian: oktoober (et)
Ewe: Kele, Ɔktober
Faroese: oktober m, oktobur m
Fijian: okotova
Finnish: lokakuu (fi)
French: octobre (fr) m
Friulian: Otubar m
Galician: outubro (gl) m
Gallurese: Santigaini m
Georgian: ოქტომბერი (ka) (okṭomberi)
German: Oktober (de) m
Gilbertese: Okitobwa
Greek: Οκτώβριος (el) m (Októvrios), Οκτώβρης (el) m (Októvris)
Greenlandic: oktobari
Haitian Creole: oktòb
Hausa: Oktoba
Hawaiian: ʻOkakopa
Hebrew: אוקטובר \\ אוֹקְטוֹבֶּר‎ (he) m (október)
Hindi: अक्टूबर (hi) m (akṭūbar)
Hungarian: október (hu)
Icelandic: október (is) m, októbermánuður m
Ido: oktobro (io)
Indonesian: oktober
Interlingua: octobre (ia)
Inuktitut: ᐅᒃᑐᐳᕆ (iu) (oktopori)
Inupiaq: Nuliaġvik
Irish: Deireadh Fómhair (ga) m
Italian: ottobre (it) m
Jamaican Creole: actoba
Japanese: 十月 (ja) (じゅうがつ, jūgatsu), 神無月 (ja) (かんなづき, kannazuki, かみなづき, kaminazuki, かむなづき, kamunazuki)
Javanese: Oktober
Kabuverdianu: otubru
Kambera: wulang hakambulu
Kannada: ಅಕ್ಟೋಬರ್ (akṭōbar)
Kapampangan: Kayapúlûng búlan, Októbri
Kashubian: rujan (csb) m
Kazakh: қазан (kk) (qazan)
Khmer: តុលា (km) (tolaa)
Kikuyu: Mwania Thenge
Korean: 시월 (ko) (siwol)
Kyrgyz: октябрь (ky) (oktyabrʹ)
Ladin: otober, utober
Lakota: Čhaŋwápe kasná wí
Lao: ເດືອນຕຸລາ (dư̄an tu lā)
Latin: october (la)
Latvian: oktobris (lv) m
Lezgi: баскӏум (basḳum)
Limburgish: oktober (li) m
Lithuanian: spalis (lt) m
Livonian: oktōbõr, vīmkū
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: oktober m, oktobermaand m
German Low German: Oktober m
Luganda: mukulukusa
Luxembourgish: Oktober (lb) m, Wäimount (lb) m
Macedonian: окто́мври (mk) m (októmvri)
Malayalam: ഒക്ടോബർ (ml) (okṭōbaṟ)
Maltese: Ottubru (mt) m
Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ
ᠪᡳ᠍ᠶᠠ
Maori: Oketopa
Marathi: ऑक्टोबर (ŏkṭobar)
Mingrelian: გჷმათუთა (gəmatuta)
Mirandese: Outubre m
Mongolian: аравдугаар сар (aravdugaar sar)
Montagnais: uashtessiu-pishimᵘ
Mòcheno: schanmikeal m
Navajo: Ghąąjįʼ
Neapolitan: ottómbre m
North Frisian:
Föhr-Amrum: oktuuber m
Mooring: stormmoune m, uktoober m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: oktober (no) m
Nynorsk: oktober (nn) m
Occitan: octòbre (oc)
Ojibwe: binaakwe-giizis
Old English: winterfylleþ
Old High German: Gilbhart m
Oriya: ଅକ୍ଟୋବର (ôkṭobôrô)
Oromo: Onkoloolessa
Ossetian: октя́брь (oktjábrʹ)
Pashto: اکټوبر‎ m (akṭóbár)
Pennsylvania German: Oktower
Persian: اکتبر‎ (fa) (oktobr)
Punjabi: ਅਕਤੂਬਰ (pa) m (akatūbar)
Plautdietsch: Oktooba m
Polish: październik (pl) m inan
Portuguese: outubro (pt) m
Romanian: octombrie (ro), (pop) brumărel (ro)
Romansch: october m, otgover m
Russian: октя́брь (ru) m (oktjábrʹ)
Samoan: oketopa
Sardinian: santigaini, santugabinu, santugaine m, mese de ledamines m
Saterland Frisian: Oktober
Scots: October
Scottish Gaelic: an Dàmhair f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: октобар m
Roman: oktobar (sh) m, listopad (sh) m (Croatia)
Shona: Gumiguru
Sicilian: uttuviru (scn) m, uttùviru (scn) m
Sinhalese: ඔක්තෝබර් (si) (oktōbar)
Skolt Sami: kålggmään
Slovak: október (sk) m
Slovene: október (sl) m
Sotho: Mphalane (st)
Spanish: octubre (es) m
Swedish: oktober (sv) c
Tahitian: ’ātopa
Tajik: октябр (tg) (oktyabr)
Tatar: октябрь (oqtyabr’)
Telugu: అక్టోబరు (akṭōbaru)
Thai: ตุลาคม (th) (dtù-laa-kom)
Tok Pisin: oktoba
Tongan: ʻOkatopa
Turkish: ekim (tr), teşrinievvel (tr) (archaic)
Turkmen: oktýabr
Udmurt: коньывуон (konʹyvuon)
Ukrainian: жо́втень (uk) m (žóvtenʹ)
Urdu: اکتوبر‎ (ur) m (akṭūbar)
Uyghur: ئۆكتەبىر‎ (öktebir), ئۆكتەبر‎ (öktebr), ئوكتەبىر‎ (oktebir), ئوكتەبر‎ (oktebr), ئونىنچى ئاي‎ (oninchi ay)
Uzbek: oktyabr (uz)
Venetian: otobre (vec)
Vietnamese: tháng mười (vi)
Volapük: tobul (vo)
Võro: rehekuu
Walloon: octôbe (wa) m
Welsh: Hydref (cy)
West Frisian: oktober (fy), wynmoanne (fy)
Winnebago: Caa mąą hinąǧo wiira
Wolof: Oktoobar
Yakut: Алтынньы (Altınńı)
Yiddish: אָקטאָבער‎ (yi) m (oktober)
Yup'ik: Nulirun
Zazaki: Tışrino Verên, cetan, oktobre, karnak
Zuni: Kwa'hołs A:ya:kya, Łi'dekwakkya Łana

Noun

October (uncountable)

(now historical) A type of ale traditionally brewed in October. [from 18th c.]
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 114, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume IV, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:
  [T]he gate of a large chateau, of a most noble and venerable appearance […] induced them to alight and view the apartments, contrary to their first intention of drinking a glass of his October at the door.

Verb

October (third-person singular simple present Octobers, present participle Octobering, simple past and past participle Octobered)

(historical, transitive) In the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religious christening.

Anagrams

Octobre

Scots

Etymology

From Latin octōber (“of the eighth month”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [okˈtobər]

Proper noun

October

October