What is the 4month of the year?

The table below shows the months of the year used in English-speaking countries and many other parts of the world. The list shows the order of the months, starting from January (month 1).

The abbreviations or short forms shown are the most common, but other abbreviations are possible, for example: Ja./Fe./Ma. or J./F./M.

The days column shows the number of days in the month. All months have 30 or 31 days, except for February which has 28 days (29 in a leap year).

Every fourth year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28. This year is called a "leap year" and the 29th day of February is a "leap day". A leap year has 366 days instead of the usual 365. Most years that can be cleanly divided by four are leap years. 2016, 2020 and 2024, for example, are leap years.

The seasons are approximate and depend on latitude. Some parts of the world have only three seasons. The seasons shown here are for the North Temperate Zone (for example North America). In the southern hemisphere, the seasons are reversed.

Months of the year list

* Leap year occures every 4 years, except for years that are divisable by 100 and not divisable by 400.

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• Weeks in a year
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• Days in a year
• Months of year
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Your question seems self contradictory. You say, "'If I want to say the first three months of the year in one word, I would say "the first quarter".' Except, umm, "the first quarter" is three words and not one word.

The short answer to your question is: There is no commonly used word in English for a period of 4 months. I see some people have posted suggestions for an invented word that would mean this, but if you tried to use a made-up word, you would have to explain it or no one would know what you were talking about.

If you are just referring to this time period one or two times in some discussion, it would be far simpler to just say "a period of 4 months". Yes, that's 5 words instead of 1, but if you made up a new word, it would take more than 4 words to explain it, so you'd end up using more words, not less, not to mention being more confusing.

If you are writing a long article or a book in which you will repeatedly refer to a period of 4 months, then it could be useful to invent a word. If you use it often enough, the "overhead" of having to define it is spread across many uses and it may be worth the trouble.

You are correct, but it would be good if you backed this up with further references to help people, because it is not a word commonly used in today’s English. It comes from Latin quadrimestris, with the meaning you give it. The French spell it quadrimestre as the British do, but the Spanish spell this word cuatrimestre in their language, with the d>t change explained by influence of their word for four, cuatro.

– tchrist ♦

Oct 21, 2014 at 0:18

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