May

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May, originally named Maius, after Maia, the Roman goddess of growth and mother of Mercury, is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The month of Maius was the third month in the original ten-month Roman calendar established by Romulus, founder of Rome, where March was the first month of the year. Maius was also temporarily named Lucius by Commodus, after one of his names, which he presumably took to identify himself with Lucius Aelius, former heir to the throne. May is the third month with thirty-one days (after January and March, and before July, August, October, and December).