单词 | sothic |
释义 | Sothicadj. 1. Sothic cycle or period, a period of 1460 full years, containing 1461 of the ancient Egyptian ordinary years. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1828 |
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