intercalate
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prettygoodwordintercalate - v., to insert (an extra day, month, et cet.) in a calendar; to insert, interpose, interpolate.
Leap day is a regularly scheduled intercalation; the occasional leap second is an ad hoc one. As for the month, some lunar calendars (such as the Jewish one, but not the Muslim) use them. From Latin intercalāre, to insert a day or month into the calendar, from inter- + calāre, to proclaim -- from which you can deduce that a) the Romans sometimes used leap months as well but b) not systematically.
---L.
Leap day is a regularly scheduled intercalation; the occasional leap second is an ad hoc one. As for the month, some lunar calendars (such as the Jewish one, but not the Muslim) use them. From Latin intercalāre, to insert a day or month into the calendar, from inter- + calāre, to proclaim -- from which you can deduce that a) the Romans sometimes used leap months as well but b) not systematically.
---L.
