Editing French Republican calendar (section)

=== Months ===
The month names were based on nature, principally having to do with the prevailing weather in and around Paris and sometimes evoking the Medieval [[Labours of the Months]]. The extra five or six days in the year were not given a month designation but considered {{lang|fr|[[Sansculottides]]|italic=no}} or [[#Complementary_days|complementary days]]. Most of the month names were new words coined from French, Latin, or Greek. The endings of the names were grouped by season. {{lang|fr|-dor}} comes from {{lang|grc|δῶρον}}, {{lang|grc-Latn|dō̂ron}} means 'giving' in Greek.<ref name="Carlyle" />
* Autumn:
** [[Vendémiaire]] (from French {{lang|fr|vendange}}, which means 'grape harvest', derived from Latin {{lang|la|vindemia}} 'vintage'), starting 22, 23, or 24 September
** [[Brumaire]] (from French {{lang|fr|brume}} 'mist', from Latin {{lang|la|brūma}} 'winter solstice; winter; winter cold'), starting 22, 23, or 24 October
** [[Frimaire]] (from French {{lang|fr|frimas}} 'frost'), starting 21, 22, or 23 November
* Winter:
** [[Nivôse]] (from Latin {{lang|la|nivosus}} 'snowy'), starting 21, 22, or 23 December
** [[Pluviôse]] (from French {{lang|fr|pluvieux}}, derived from Latin {{lang|la|pluvius}} 'rainy'), starting 20, 21, or 22 January
** [[Ventôse]] (from French {{lang|fr|venteux}}, derived from Latin {{lang|la|ventosus}} 'windy'), starting 19, 20, or 21 February
* Spring:
** [[Germinal (month)|Germinal]] (from French {{lang|fr|germination}}), starting 21 or 22 March
** [[Floréal]] (from French {{lang|fr|fleur}}, derived from Latin {{lang|la|flos}} 'flower'), starting 20 or 21 April
** [[Prairial]] (from French {{lang|fr|prairie}} 'meadow'), starting 20 or 21 May
* Summer:
** [[Messidor]] (from Latin {{lang|la|messis}} 'harvest'), starting 19 or 20 June
** [[Thermidor]] (from Greek {{lang|grc|θέρμη}}, {{lang|grc-Latn|thermē}}, 'summer heat'), starting 19 or 20 July; on many printed calendars of Year II (1793–94), the month of ''Thermidor'' was named ''Fervidor'' (from Latin {{lang|la|fervidus}}, "burning hot")
** [[Fructidor]] (from Latin {{lang|la|fructus}} 'fruit'), starting 18 or 19 August

In Britain, a contemporary wit mocked the calendar by calling the months: [[:wikt:wheezy|Wheezy]], [[:wikt:sneezy|Sneezy]], and [[:wikt:freezy|Freezy]]; [[:wikt:slippy|Slippy]], [[:wikt:drippy|Drippy]], and [[:wikt:nippy|Nippy]]; [[:wikt:showery|Showery]], [[:wikt:flowery|Flowery]], and [[:wikt:bowery|Bowery]]; [[:wikt:hoppy|Hoppy]], [[:wikt:croppy|Croppy]], and [[:wikt:poppy|Poppy]].<ref>{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E6EaAQAAMAAJ&q=%22New+Calendar%22&pg=PA210|title=Sporting Magazine|volume=15|page=210|date=January 1800|publisher=Rogerson and Tuxford|accessdate=23 December 2014|archive-date=6 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406115540/https://books.google.com/books?id=E6EaAQAAMAAJ&q=%22New+Calendar%22&pg=PA210|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{citation |author=John Brady |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pKjhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA38 |title=Clavis Calendaria: Or, A Compendious Analysis of the Calendar; Illustrated with Ecclesiastical, Historical, and Classical Anecdotes |volume=1 |page=38 |year=1812 |publisher=Rogerson and Tuxford |access-date=10 October 2018 |archive-date=27 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527074323/https://books.google.com/books?id=pKjhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA38#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> Historian [[Thomas Carlyle]] suggests somewhat more serious English names in his 1837 work ''[[The French Revolution: A History]]'',<ref name="Carlyle">{{cite book |author=Thomas Carlyle |title=The French revolution: a history |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=81sQAAAAYAAJ |date=1867 |publisher=Harper |access-date=3 November 2021 |archive-date=27 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527074323/https://books.google.com/books?id=81sQAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> namely Vintagearious, Fogarious, Frostarious, Snowous, Rainous, Windous, Buddal, Floweral, Meadowal, Reapidor, Heatidor, and Fruitidor. Like the French originals, they are [[neologism]]s suggesting a meaning related to the season.