Croatian months

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The Croatian months used with the Gregorian calendar by Croats differ from the original Latin month names:

No.	Latin name	English name	Croatian name	Croatian meaning^{[citation needed]}
1	Ianuarius	January	Siječanj	month of cutting (wood)
2	Februarius	February	Veljača	month of changing^{[dubious – discuss]} Also, possibly from "Velja Noć (Great Night)", old Slavic pagan festival that falls in modern-day February^{[dubious – discuss]}
3	Martius	March	Ožujak	lying month
4	Aprilis	April	Travanj	month of grass
5	Maius	May	Svibanj	month of budding (svibovina = Cornel tree)
6	Iunius	June	Lipanj	month of the lipa (lime / linden tree)
7	Iulius	July	Srpanj	month of reaping (with a sickle)
8	Augustus	August	Kolovoz	month of driving the wagon (for harvest) — kolo + voziti
9	September	September	Rujan	red month (rujno — adj.: red, and also ripe)
10	October	October	Listopad	month of falling leaves — list + padati
11	November	November	Studeni	cold month
12	December	December	Prosinac	the beginning of the Sun's shining

Note: some names are derived from archaic Croatian-Slavic words that are no longer found in standard Croatian dictionaries. In some cases even the meaning of those words is ambiguous.

Note: In Macedonian, Listopad is also the (archaic) name for October but in Polish and Czech, listopad means November. Likewise, Polish sierpień and Czech srpen mean August rather than July.