is october named after octavius caesar?

Answer 1

nope.

October - the eighth month
Middle English octobre
Latin October
Latin octo "eight" + -ber (adj. suffix)
Latin october mensis "eighth month"
October has always had 31 days.

TRIVIA
>> October begins on the same day of the week as January in common years and May in leap years. This is wrong; in leap years there is no day the same.
>> October in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to April in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa.
>> October's birthstone is the opal or tourmaline.
>> October's flower is the calendula or cosmos.
>> The month October has become famous as "Red October", due to the Russian October revolution of 1917, although in the modern Gregorian clandar, the revolution started in November.
>> In the nineteenth century, the month of October was dedication to devotion to the rosary in Roman Catholic countries.
>> October is the most common birth month, along with July.

However, the month of August (Latin: Augustus) is named after Augustus(aka Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus); until his time it was called Sextilis (named so because it had been the sixth month of the original Roman calendar and the Latin word for six was sex). Commonly-repeated lore has it that August has 31 days because Augustus wanted his month to match the length of Julius Caesar's July, but this is an invention of the 13th century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco. Sextilis in fact had 31 days before it was renamed, and it was not chosen for its length (see Julian calendar). According to a senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, Sextilis was renamed to honour Augustus because several of the most significant events in his rise to power, culminating in the fall of Alexandria, fell in that month.

Answer 2

NO
October comes from the prefix oct, meaning 'eight' (as in octagon). from the Roman Calandar.
The Roman Calandar started with the month of Martius or (March)

Martius (31 days)
Aprilis (30 days)
Maius (31 days)
Junius (30 days)
Quintilis (31 days)
Sextilis (30 days)
September (30 days)
October (31 days)
November (30 days) and
December (30 days)

The Roman Calandar is based on one of the Greek lunar calendars.

The Julian calendar was a reform of the Roman calendar which was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and came into force in 45 BC and was designed to approximate the tropical year. It has a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months, and a leap day is added to February every four years. Hence the Julian year is on average 365.25 days long.

Martius (31 days)
Aprilis (29 days)
Maius (31 days)
Junius (29 days)
Quintilis (31 days)
Sextilis (29 days)
September (29 days)
October (31 days)
November (29 days)
December (29 days)
Ianuarius (29 days)
Februarius (28 days)

The Julian calendar was in general use in Europe and Northern Africa from the times of the Roman Empire until 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII promulgated the modern Gregorian Calendar. Reform was required because too many leap days are added with respect to the astronomical seasons on the Julian scheme. Most Western European countries shifted the first day of their numbered year to 1 January while they were still using the Julian calendar, before they adopted the Gregorian calendar, many during the sixteenth century. With the shift of the start of the first day orf the numbered year from March to January also moved October from the eighth possition on the calandar to the tenth possition, therefore October is now the tenth month.

Answer 3

Julius Caesar was the famous Roman general who conquered Gaul and landed in, but didn't conquer, England. He wrote about his military campaigns in his book 'Gallic Wars' He eventually made himself de facto dictator of Rome and was assassinated by those who thought he was going to overthrow the Republic. Octavius Caesar was his nephew and heir. He continued the civil wars which were tearing the Empire apart. Eventually overcoming his deadly rival, Mark Anthony, he became undisputed ruler of Rome and its first Emperor. He renamed himself Augustus Caesar.

Answer 4

Meaning of: October
October: Means "the eighth month."
From the Latin octo, eight.
Eighth month of the old Roman calendar, which began with March.

Answer 5

Actually, it was designed as the month in which Romans went to the beach and collected octopuses (octopusi?) and wear them as wigs. They would then eat them and after some time vomit them up into the ocean as an offering to Trident.

Answer 6

No, it is named after the latin for eight because it was the eight month on the roman calendar

Answer 7

No. It was the eighth month on the old Roman calendar.

Answer 8

Methinks so. Hail- Caesar! :)