{ "seasonSuffix": { "autumn": "Ending in \"-aire\" (from Latin -arius)", "winter": "Ending in \"-ôse\" (from Latin -osus, \"endowed with\")", "spring": "Ending in \"-al\" (from Latin -alis)", "summer": "Ending in \"-idor\" (from Greek dôron, \"gift\")" }, "months": { "vendemiaire": { "name": "Vendémiaire", "season": "autumn", "period": "22/23/24 September – 21/22/23 October", "etymology": "From Latin vindemia, \"grape harvest\".", "description": "The first month of the Republican year opens autumn and starts on equinox day. Fabre d'Églantine named it after the grape harvest that closes the work of the vineyard." }, "brumaire": { "name": "Brumaire", "season": "autumn", "period": "22/23/24 October – 20/21/22 November", "etymology": "From Latin bruma, \"fog, mist\".", "description": "The month of the mists and fog that blanket the countryside between October and November." }, "frimaire": { "name": "Frimaire", "season": "autumn", "period": "21/22/23 November – 20/21/22 December", "etymology": "From the French word \"frimas\", the damp cold of late autumn.", "description": "The last month of autumn, marked by the first frosts, alternately dry and humid, heralding winter." }, "nivose": { "name": "Nivôse", "season": "winter", "period": "21/22/23 December – 19/20/21 January", "etymology": "From Latin nix, nivis, \"snow\".", "description": "The first month of winter, named for the snow that whitens the ground between December and January." }, "pluviose": { "name": "Pluviôse", "season": "winter", "period": "20/21/22 January – 18/19/20 February", "etymology": "From Latin pluvia, \"rain\".", "description": "The month of abundant rainfall typically falling between January and February." }, "ventose": { "name": "Ventôse", "season": "winter", "period": "19/20/21 February – 20/21 March", "etymology": "From Latin ventosus, \"windy\".", "description": "The last month of winter, that of squalls and drying winds between February and March." }, "germinal": { "name": "Germinal", "season": "spring", "period": "21/22 March – 19/20 April", "etymology": "From Latin germen, \"sprout, germ\".", "description": "The first month of spring, that of budding and rising sap between March and April." }, "floreal": { "name": "Floréal", "season": "spring", "period": "20/21 April – 19/20 May", "etymology": "From Latin flos, floris, \"flower\".", "description": "The month when flowers bloom, between April and May." }, "prairial": { "name": "Prairial", "season": "spring", "period": "20/21 May – 18/19 June", "etymology": "From the French word \"prairie\", meadow.", "description": "The last month of spring, that of cheerful abundance and the meadow harvest between May and June." }, "messidor": { "name": "Messidor", "season": "summer", "period": "19/20 June – 18/19 July", "etymology": "From Latin messis, \"harvest\", and Greek dôron, \"gift\".", "description": "The first month of summer, that of rippling ears of wheat and golden harvests between June and July." }, "thermidor": { "name": "Thermidor", "season": "summer", "period": "19/20 July – 17/18 August", "etymology": "From Greek thermos, \"heat\", and dôron, \"gift\".", "description": "The month of heat, both solar and terrestrial, that sets the air ablaze between July and August." }, "fructidor": { "name": "Fructidor", "season": "summer", "period": "18/19 August – 16/17 September", "etymology": "From Latin fructus, \"fruit\", and Greek dôron, \"gift\".", "description": "The last month of the year, that of the fruit ripened golden by the sun between August and September." } }, "decadeDays": { "primidi": "Primidi", "duodi": "Duodi", "tridi": "Tridi", "quartidi": "Quartidi", "quintidi": "Quintidi", "sextidi": "Sextidi", "septidi": "Septidi", "octidi": "Octidi", "nonidi": "Nonidi", "decadi": "Décadi" }, "complementaryDays": { "title": "Complementary days (sans-culottides)", "days": { "virtue": { "name": "Day of Virtue", "description": "First complementary day, dedicated to civic virtue." }, "genius": { "name": "Day of Genius", "description": "Second complementary day, celebrating genius and inventiveness." }, "labour": { "name": "Day of Labour", "description": "Third complementary day, honouring work." }, "opinion": { "name": "Day of Opinion", "description": "Fourth complementary day, devoted to freedom of opinion." }, "rewards": { "name": "Day of Rewards", "description": "Fifth complementary day, dedicated to public rewards." }, "revolution": { "name": "Day of the Revolution", "description": "Sixth complementary day, added only in sextile years, commemorating the Revolution with national games." } } } }