april

English Online Dictionary. What means april‎? What does april mean?

Danish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aˈpʁiːˀl/, [æˈpχiˀl]

Noun

april c

1. April (the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar)

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch april, from Latin Aprīlis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈprɪl/
• Hyphenation: april
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

april m (plural aprillen, diminutive aprilletje n)

1. the month of April

   Synonym: (archaic) grasmaand

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: April
• Negerhollands: apriel
• → Caribbean Hindustani: april
• → Papiamentu: aprel
• → Sranan Tongo: aprel
• → Trió: eiperëu

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Interlingua

Noun

april (plural aprils)

1. April

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Limburgish

Alternative forms

• April (alternative spelling)
• aprèl (Maastrichtian)
• Apréll, Aprélle (Eupen)

Etymology

From Latin Aprīlis (“of the month of the goddess Venus”), perhaps based on Etruscan 𐌀𐌐𐌓𐌖 (apru), from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē, “Venus”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (traditional) /ɑˈpʀil/, (alternative modern) [ɑˈpʀɪl]
• Hyphenation: april
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

april m

1. April (month)

Livonian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin. See etymology at English April.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑpril/

Noun

april

1. April
   • https://web.archive.org/web/20130106154311/http://livones.net/

     LKS vāldiž tīemiz pivād vȯltõ 1994. āigast 2. aprils

     the opening ceremony (lit. "celebration of opening operation") of LKS (Līvõ Kultūr sidām) was on April 2, 1994

Usage notes

Perhaps by error April is one of three months (besides November and December) that LĒL doesn't list. As can be observed on sites such as livones.net, its name is april. Declension type used for other borrowed words ending in -il (e.g., makril – 140) is given in this entry.

Declension

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North Frisian

Alternative forms

• April (Sylt)

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Aprīlis.

Noun

april m

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) April

   Synonym: (Mooring) gjarsmoune

See also

• months of the year in Föhr-Amrum Frisian: janewoore, febrewoore, marts, april, mei, jüüne, jüüle, august, september, oktuuber, nofember, deetsember

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin Aprīlis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈpriːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

april (indeclinable)

1. April (fourth month of the Gregorian calendar)

Derived terms

• aprilsnarr
• aprilspøk
• narre april, narre en april

See also

References

• “april” in The Ordnett Dictionary
• “april” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin Aprīlis.

Noun

april m (indeclinable)

1. April (fourth month)

Derived terms

• aprilnarr, aprilsnarr
• aprilspøk
• narre ein april

References

• “april” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Noun

april m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of aprilie

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎpriːl/
• Hyphenation: a‧pril

Noun

àprīl m (Cyrillic spelling а̀прӣл)

1. April

   Synonym: (Croatia) trȃvanj

Declension

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

• àprīlskī

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apríːl/

Noun

aprȋl m inan

1. April

Declension

Coordinate terms

Slovincian

Etymology

Borrowed from German April. Compare Kashubian aprël.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈpril/
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: a‧pril

Noun

april m inan (related adjective aprilôwy)

1. April

Further reading

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “aprìl”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 5

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apˈriːl/, /apˈrɪl/

Noun

april c

1. April

Synonyms

• gräsmånad

Derived terms

• aprilmånad
• aprilmånaden (definite form for april)
• aprilväder

References

• april in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• april in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• april in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• pilar

West Frisian

Etymology

From Latin Aprīlis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈprɪl/

Noun

april ? (plural [please provide])

1. April

   Synonym: gersmoanne

Further reading

• “april”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011