nundinae

From ellipsis of nūndinae fēriae (“ninth-day fair”), in reference to Roman market days, from their usual observance every ninth day. In Classical Latin, plural only; at least one instance of singular usage attested in Late Latin.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnuːn.di.nae̯/, [ˈnuːn̪d̪ɪnäe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnun.di.ne/, [ˈnun̪d̪ine]

nūndinae f pl (genitive nūndinārum); first declension

1. (historical) A Roman market day, occurring every ninth day.

   Synonym: nūndinae fēriae

First-declension noun, plural only.

• nūndinus (adjective)

• → English: nundine, nundines

nūndinae

1. inflection of nūndinus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine plural
   2. genitive/dative feminine singular

• “nundinae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nundinae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nundinae in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• nundinae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nundinae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nundinae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin