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Undecimber
Undecimber or Undecember is a name for a thirteenth month in a calendar that normally has twelve months. Duodecember is similarly a fourteenth month.
==Latin==
The word ''Undecimber'' is based on the Latin word ''undecim'' meaning "eleven". This is intended by analogy with ''December,'' which, though now the twelfth month, derives from ''decem'' meaning "ten". The "i" in ''Undecimber'' is therefore correct, even though ''December'' is spelled with an "e". The word ''Undecember'' (abbreviated as ''Vnde'') is recorded from a Roman inscription, apparently as "A humorous name given to the month following December".
When the reformed Julian calendar was introduced in 44 BC, the discrepancies accrued to that point were rectified by inserting two intercalary months, totalling 67 days, between November and December. Some recent authors report the names "Undecember" and "Duodecember" for these, including the World Calendar Association and Isaac Asimov. This claim has no contemporary evidence; Cicero's letters of the time refer to the months as ''intercalaris prior'' and ''intercalaris posterior''.
Historian Cassius Dio tells that Licinus, procurator of Gaul, added two months to the year a.u.738 (15 BC), because taxes were paid by the month. Though not named by Dio, who wrote in Greek, August Immanuel Bekker suggested these would have been called "Undecember" and "Duodecember".
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