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Instante mense
“In the present month.”
Commercial and correspondence term
Translation
What does “Instante mense” mean?
Instante mense translates as “In the present month.”
An old business and letter-writing term for ‘this month’, abbreviated ‘inst.’
Origin
The story behind it
Formal and commercial correspondence once used ‘inst.’ after a date, as in ‘your letter of the 5th inst.’, meaning the 5th of this month.
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- Latin
- Instante mense
- English
- In the present month.
- Source
- Commercial and correspondence term
- Era
- Modern
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