Monthly is an adjective that comes from the Latin word monthlyis . The term is used to refer to something that lasts a month or that happens or is repeated every month .
For example: “The doctor suggested I do a monthly checkup,” “The manager proposed a monthly meeting to evaluate the results,” “The payment is monthly, but if you have a problem, you can request an advance.”
Monthly concept
To understand the notion of monthly, it is necessary to understand what a month is. From the Latin mensis , a month is one of the twelve periods into which a year is divided. Our calendar (the Gregorian calendar ) states that each year is divided into twelve months: January , February , March , April , May , June , July , August , September , October , November and December .
If a person lives in Montevideo and travels to Punta del Este every month, it can be said that he or she makes a monthly visit to said city. At the end of the year, therefore, you will have accumulated twelve visits to Punta del Este .
The concept of monthly has great importance in our lives , since the calendar on which we base ourselves to organize the year is divided into months, each of which begins with day 1, as if they were small eras, pieces of our time that will inevitably come to an end and give rise to a new one.
One month's salary
An amount that is paid monthly or a month's salary is known as a monthly payment . A child who receives a monthly payment of one hundred pesos will receive said amount monthly. If his parents promise that he will receive his monthly payment every 5th, the child will know that on that date he will have access to his monthly money .
In some countries, a laborer who is hired for months to perform certain jobs in the field is classified as monthly. In this way, it is differentiated from the day laborer (who works for a day and is paid per day).
Monthly publication
Certain publications, such as magazines and newsletters, are issued monthly, generally with an estimated date that only varies if there has been a complication or unforeseen event. Before the Internet era, in which we currently live, people did not have constant access to the information and products of their choice, but rather had to inevitably accept the publication periods of physical and broadcast media. of television and radio programs.
The wait of four weeks, which today seems impossible to imagine, made a monthly magazine, for example, a desired object ; Its circulation could mean a gift for its readers, who waited for it every month as if it were a visit from a loved one. This had certain disadvantages, as might be expected, because the publishers had to condense all the news of each month into a single issue, which made it impossible to access breaking news information .
In the case of specialized publications, whether on topics such as motorsports or video games , if there was an event of great importance for the field three weeks before the next issue, readers received the coverage with a significant delay, except on rare occasions in that an extraordinary circulation be printed.
Once again, this had its positive side, since it generated greater expectations and made journalistic work more respected: a hundred-page monthly magazine was not thrown into the trash after leafing through it for a couple of minutes, as is usually the case. happen with websites. Furthermore, since there was a much lower level of competition than today, even two similar publications could offer truly different and authentic points of view.