Meanings
alternative antoikoi · alternative antœci
- pluralplural onlyThe inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero.
Antichthones…comprehend both the Antipodes and Antœci, or all beyond the Line[.]
1684, Thomas Burnet, The Theory of the Earth, book 2, published 1697, page 1742 more examples
Antœci are such as dwell under the same Meridian and the same Latitude or Parallel equally distant from the Æquator; the one northward, the other Southward; the days in both places being of a length; but the Summer of the one being the others winter.
1622, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie in Four Bookes, Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, published 1674, introduction, page 20, column 1Antœci…have their noon, or midnight, or any other hour at the same time; but their seasons are contrary, being spring to the one, when it is autumn with the other.
1796, Charles Hutton, A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, volume 1, page 121, column 1
Origin
- Ancient Greekἄντοικοι“dwellers opposite”
- Latinantoecī
- Englishantoeci
From the Latin antoecī, from the Ancient Greek ἄντοικοι (ántoikoi, “dwellers opposite”), from ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “dwelling”).
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Portuguese antecos
- antecosthe inhabitants of the place at the opposite degree of latitude
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