You don't see many Etruscan words these days.
Today is the ides of March. I knew it was the 15th, and the day the soothsayer warned Julius Caesar about, but I wondered what it meant.
The ides falls on the 15th of the month in March, May, July and October of the Roman calendar; on the 13th the other months.
The ides is most likely the middle day of the month, and derived from the Latin "idus", probably from an Etruscan word meaning "division" of the month.
Today, the Ides of March connotes a day of doom, because we associate it with the day in 44 B.C. that Julius Caesar was assassinated. Who can forget "Beware the Ides of March?"
I wish I could just stay in bed all day and pull the blankets over my head.
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