DOMINICAL LETTER

Definition: DOMINICAL LETTER

DOMINICAL LETTER

1. The letter which, in almanacs, denotes Sunday, or the Lord's day (dies Domini). The first seven letters of the alphabet are used for this purpose, the same letter standing for Sunday during a whole year (except in leap year, when the letter is changed at the end of February). After twenty-eight years the same letters return in the same order. The dominical letters go backwards one day every common year, and two every leap year; e. g., if the dominical letter of a common year be G, F will be the dominical letter for the next year. Called also Sunday letter . Cf.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: Dominical letter

The days of the year are sometimes designated letters A, B, C, D, E, F and G in a cycle of 7 as an aid for finding the day of week of a given calendar date and in calculating Easter. These letters are known as dominical Letters.

A common year has a dominical letter, which is simply the dominical letter of its first Sunday. For example 2003 has 5 January as its first Sunday so has Dominical letter E.

In leap years, the leap day has no dominical letter. This ensures that each date has the same dominical letter every year, but causes the days of the weeks of the dominical letters to change within a leap year. Hence leap years have two dominical letters. The first for January and February and the second for March to December. The second dominical letter is the dominical letter of the first Sunday of October (which is the same as for January in a common year). The year 2004 has Dominical letters DC.

Examples include

2000 BA 2001 G 2002 F 2003 E 2004 DC 2005 B 2006 A 2007 G

The dominical letter of a year determines the days of week in its calendar

A common year starting on Sunday B common year starting on Saturday C common year starting on Friday D common year starting on Thursday E common year starting on Wednesday F common year starting on Tuesday G common year starting on Monday

AG leap year starting on Sunday BA leap year starting on Saturday CB leap year starting on Friday DC leap year starting on Thursday ED leap year starting on Wednesday FE leap year starting on Tuesday GF leap year starting on Monday

External Link

Catholic Encyclopedia [1]

Modern Translation: DOMINICAL LETTER

Anagrams: DOMINICAL LETTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-i-l-l-m-n-o-r-t-t"
	-2 letters: intermetallic.
	-3 letters: acetonitrile, dilatometric, meteoritical, tredecillion.
	-4 letters: actinometer, delectation, dereliction, detrimental, dilatometer, directional, endometrial, interallied, interatomic, intertilled, malediction, metrication, remediation.
	-5 letters: acidimeter, actinolite, allometric, antidromic, antiemetic, antierotic, centiliter, ceremonial, citronella, clinometer, colemanite, collimated, credential, criminated, decimation, delineator, derailment, detraction, ectodermal, eliminated, eliminator, endometria, entodermal, entodermic, eremitical, idiolectal, illiterate, indelicate, interacted, interlaced, interlocal, intermodal, intertidal.
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Alternative Orthography: DOMINICAL LETTER

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 4F 4D 49 4E 49 43 41 4C 4C 45 54 54 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001111 01001101 01001001 01001110 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100 00100000 01001100 01000101 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#76 &#69 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 004D 0049 004E 0049 0043 0041 004C 004C 0045 0054 0054 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Language		Translations for "DOMINICAL LETTER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Manx		lettyr yn Doonee. (various references)

Pig Latin		ominicalday etterlay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

DOMINICAL LETTER

Definition: DOMINICAL LETTER