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- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀντίσκιον
- English todayantiscion
From Ancient Greek ἀντίσκιον (antískion), from ἀντι- (anti-, “opposite”) + σκιά (skiá, “shadow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
antiscion
Today it means: The mirror image, or shadow, of a planet, based upon a line of reference which is the axis of 0 Cancer/0 Capricorn (the position of the sun at the solstices). Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἀντίσκιον