#calendar

• Anna Perenna — An ancient Roman divinity of the circle of the year, time renewal, and spring, festively celebrated on March 15 (the Ides of March), which coincided with the first full moon of the old Roman calendar. Her name structurally combines two Latin forms expressing the idea of continuity, perpetual flow, and cyclical regeneration of life, her popular festival being characterized by open-air picnics, songs, and wishes for long life held on the banks of the Tiber River.
• In the year of our Lord — A Latin phrase used internationally to mark the numbering of years in the Christian era, literally translated as 'in the year of our Lord'. This structural chronological marker was introduced in the 6th century by the monk Dionysius Exiguus to align the calendar axis based on the calculated birth year of Jesus Christ, currently abbreviated as 'A.D.' and serving as the official standard in the universal dating system.
• Season — An archaic, truncated, or regional variant of the neuter noun 'anotimp' (season), used in the past within rural communities to designate a specific period of the year characterized by certain repeating climatic conditions and meteorological phenomena. In the structural language of old folk calendars, the term fixed agricultural cycles, determining optimal times for sowing, harvesting, or transhumance.
• Antipascha — A theological and liturgical name for the first Sunday after the Resurrection of Christ, also known in Eastern Christian tradition as Thomas Sunday. This structural feast does not signify an opposition to Holy Easter, but translates from Greek as 'instead of Easter' or 'the renewal of Easter', marking the closing of the Easter octave and the renewal of the Resurrection celebration through the confession of Apostle Thomas.
• Annual — Occurring, celebrated, calculated, or appearing once a year; lasting for an entire year or repeating with regularity every twelve months, serving as a standard chronological indicator in economics, statistics, and social life.
• The year — The definite articulated form of the noun an; a fundamental unit of time measuring the period of the Earth's revolution around the Sun, lasting approximately 365 days, 5 hours, and 48 minutes; a standard calendar interval used for planning, accounting, and historical reporting.
• New Year — A global secular and religious holiday marking the beginning of a new calendar year, fixed in the Gregorian calendar on January 1st; a symbolic transition moment marked everywhere by festivities, ancestral time-renewal rituals, cultural events, and personal resolutions.
• April — An archaic, bookish, or poetic variant for the name of the month April (the fourth month of the calendar year). Preserved in folk speech as a calendar archaism or frequently used in classical literary texts to shade the springtime atmosphere, the term evokes the rebirth of nature, weather instability, and agrarian traditions specific to the homonymous month.
• April — The fourth month of the calendar year in the Gregorian system, consisting of a fixed number of thirty days; a chronological interval structurally situated in the middle of spring. Known in Romanian folklore as prier, this month marks the opening of buds, the complete awakening of vegetation, and the intense resumption of traditional agricultural activities.
• Arentie — A masculine proper name, a rare Christian given name or Romanian surname of hagiographic origin, derived from the Latin 'Terentius' or borrowed through Slavo-Byzantine channels from the Greek 'Arentios'. In the historical onomastic structure of the Romanian Principalities, the name is recorded in parish registers, court deeds, and ancient estate charters, borne by men from rural communities before the modern simplification of church calendars.
• Arimie — An archaic masculine given name or a rare regional variant of the name Irimie or Eremia; a given name historically borne in rural communities of Romania, derived from the biblical root of the prophet Jeremiah.
• Arminden festival — A traditional Romanian holiday celebrated on the 1st of May, which marks the beginning of the agricultural summer and symbolizes fertility, crop protection, and the regeneration of nature. The term also designates the tree stripped of branches up to the top or the green bough of oak, beech, or birch that people structurally place in front of houses, gates, or stables on this day to protect the household from strigoi, hail, and diseases.
• Arnindrea folk month — An archaic and regional Romanian popular name attested in certain dialects for the month of November or, specifically, for Saint Andrew's Day (November 30th), representing a linguistic contamination between 'Andrei' and folk calendar influences.
• Astion — The name of a 3rd-century Christian martyr saint who suffered and was decapitated in the fortress of Halmyris (today in Dobrogea, Romania) alongside the priest Epictetus, being considered the oldest documented martyrs on Romanian territory. In an onomastic sense, it represents a rare male given name of Greek origin, celebrated in the Orthodox calendar on July 8th.
• Astrenie — A rare onomastic or hagiographical variant, historically used in Romanian church manuscripts as a local adaptation for the feminine proper name Asteria or to denote an abstract regional form linked to stellar-astral influence in popular beliefs. In a religious context, it can refer to Saint Asteria (Astrenie), a virgin and martyr from the early Christian centuries, commemorated in synaxaria.
• Athanasia — A feminine given name of Greek origin and a surname encountered within the Coptic and Eastern Orthodox Christian traditions, being the feminine form of the name Athanasios. Its etymology derives from the Greek word 'athanasia', which translates to 'immortality' or 'eternal life', borne by several saints of the early church and cherished for its profound theological meaning.
• Athanasius — A masculine given name of Greek origin, borne by major figures in Christian history, the most famous being Saint Athanasius the Great, a 4th-century Patriarch of Alexandria and a fierce defender of orthodoxy against Arianism. Etymologically, it derives from the Greek 'Athanasios', meaning 'immortal' or 'he who does not die'.
• August — The eighth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, having 31 days. As an adjective, the term describes a person or manifestation that is grand, imposing, full of royal or imperial dignity and majesty, inspiring deep respect.
• August — An archaic or regional variant used in old Romanian dialects and Cyrillic texts for the month of August, the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar; etymologically derived from the name of the Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus. In Romania, the variant circulated heavily in religious texts and medieval chronicles written in Slavonic or Cyrillic script, preserved today sporadically in the speech of elders in certain rural zones.
• Avrentie — A proper masculine name of Greek origin (Abrentios / Laurentios), entering Romanian onomastics through religious, Slavonic, and Byzantine channels. Its etymological meaning is linked to the idea of 'bright', 'luminous', or, in other historical interpretations, associated with the ancient city of Laurentum. It is a hagiographic name borne by martyred saints in the Christian Orthodox tradition, which has now become a rare name with an archaic resonance.