Etymology

bissext

B3I1S1S1E1X8T1

Today it means: The bissextile intercalary day. Full definition →

Middle English bisext ← Latin bisextus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived frombisextus
  2. Middle English · inherited frombisext
  3. English todaybissext

From Middle English bisext, from Latin bisextus, bissextus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.