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单词 sothic
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Sothicadj.

Brit. /ˈsəʊθɪk/, /ˈsɒθɪk/, U.S. /ˈsoʊθɪk/, /ˈsɑθɪk/
Etymology: < Greek Σῶθις, an Egyptian name of Sirius, the dog-star.
1. Sothic cycle or period, a period of 1460 full years, containing 1461 of the ancient Egyptian ordinary years.
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > in different cultures or calendars
Julian period1592
saros1613
octaeteris1645
lustrala1656
biennium1699
Dionysian period1728
Victorian cycle1728
Sothic cycle or period1828
katun1902
1828 J. G. Wilkinson Materia Hieroglyphica App. i. p. ii This period is called ‘the Sothic period’.
1860 R. S. Poole in W. Smith Dict. Bible I. 506/1 The Egyptians are known to have used two great cycles, the Sothic Cycle and the Tropical Cycle.
1892 S. Laing Human Origins (1893) 117 They had invented a sothic cycle for the odd quarter of a day.
2. Sothic year n. a year of 365¼ days, in contrast to the ordinary Egyptian year of 365 days.
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > of specific calendar
year of gracec1325
year of jubilee1382
emergent yearc1450
Julian year1592
sabbatic1649
academical year1773
academic year1814
Sothic year1828
1828 J. G. Wilkinson Materia Hieroglyphica App. i. p. i As the Egyptian Solar year, in every four years, loses a day of the Sothic.
1860 R. S. Poole in W. Smith Dict. Bible I. 505/2 There appear to have been at least three years in use with the Egyptians.., the Vague Year, the Tropical Year, and the Sothic Year.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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