The standard modern names of Slovene months or Slovenian months are derived from Latin names, as in most European languages. There is also a standardized set of archaic Slovene month names:

• January
  January
  January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day...
  
    '(sun) shining through'
• February
  February
  February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days. The month has 28 days in common years and 29 days in leap years...
  
    'Candlemas'
• March
  March
  March is in present time held to be the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of the seven months which are 31 days long....
  
    'dry'
• April
  April
  April is the fourth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April was originally the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC...
  
    'small grass'
• May
  May
  May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days.May is a month of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere and spring in the Northern Hemisphere...
  
    'high grass'
• June
  June
  June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of the four months with a length of 30 days. Ovid provides two etymologies for June's name in his poem concerning the months entitled the Fasti...
  
    'flowers'
• July
  July
  July is the seventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. It is, on average, the warmest month in most of the Northern hemisphere and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere...
  
    'small sickle'
• August
  August
  August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days.This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first...
  
    'large sickle'
• September
  September
  September is the 9th month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of four months with a length of 30 days.September in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of March in the Northern Hemisphere....
  
    'nodding (wheat)'
• October
  October
  October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the...
  
    'wine flowing'
• November
  November
  November is the 11th month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of four months with the length of 30 days. November was the ninth month of the ancient Roman calendar...
  
    'falling leaves'
• December
  December
  December is the 12th and last month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days.December starts on the same day as September every year and ends on the same day as April every year.-Etymology:...
  
    'biting (cold)'

However, multiple systems have been used in various Slovene-speaking regions, some of which were based on the names of saints (e.g., jurjevščak 'April', literally 'St. George's'), numbers (e.g., prvnik 'January', literally 'first'), or other features (e.g., vetrnik 'March', literally 'windy').

Further reading

• Reindl, Donald F. 1995. Evidence for the Germanic origins of some Slovene month names. Slovene Studies 15: 169-78.
• Snoj, Marko. 2003. Slovenski etimološki slovar. Ljubljana: Modrijan.

See also

• Croatian months
  Croatian months
  The Croatian months used with the Gregorian calendar by Croats differ from the original Latin month names:Some names are derived from archaic Croatian-Slavic words that are no longer found in standard Croatian dictionaries...
  
  
• Macedonian months
• Polish months
  Polish months
  The Polish language is one of the Slavic languages that do not use Latin-derived month names .-See also:* Belarusian months* Bulgarian months* Croatian months* Czech months* Macedonian months* Slovenian months* Ukrainian months...
  
  
• Czech months
  Czech months
  The names of Czech months are, as in Polish, Croatian, Ukrainian and Belarusian not based on the Latin names used in most European languages.The suffix -en is added to most of the months' names.* January -- leden...
  
  
• Ukrainian months
  Ukrainian months
  The months of the year used with the Gregorian calendar in the Ukrainian language differ from the original Latin month names:-See also:*Croatian months*Czech months*Macedonian months*Polish months*Bulgarian months*Belarusian months...
  
  
• Belarusian months
  Belarusian months
  The months of the year used with the Gregorian calendar in the Belarusian language differ from the original Latin month names:-See also:*Croatian months*Czech months*Macedonian months*Polish months*Bulgarian months-External links:...
  
  

External links

• http://projetbabel.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7222 A comprehensive table of Slavic and Baltic month names, explanation in French.