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Adventures in Etymology 4 – April


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As we are in the month of April, I thought I’d look at the origins of that word.

April comes from the Middle English apprile, which was originally aueril, from the Old French avrill, but was re-Latinised to make it like the Latin word Aprīlis (of the month of the goddess Venus), which possibly came from the Etruscan
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