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- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromμετέμπτωσις
- English todaymetemptosis
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μετέμπτωσις (metémptōsis), from μετεμπίπτω (metempíptō).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
metemptosis
Today it means: The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the leap day once in 134 years. Full definition →
Ancient Greek μετέμπτωσις