Meanings
neros1
nounneros (plural neroses or neroi)
- BabylonhistoryA period of 600 years.
the progressive subdivisions of the saroses of 3,600 years, of the neroses of 600 years, and of the sosses [sic] of 60 years have the same progression as the divisions and subdivisions of the zodiac
1872, Arthur Dyot Thomson, On Mankind: Their Origin and Destiny, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 648 - archaicrareastronomyOne sixth of a saros, or about three years.
Neros2
noun
- pluralplural of Nero
Origin
- Akkadian𒐞
- Ancient Greekνῆρος
- Englishneros
From Ancient Greek νῆρος (nêros), from Akkadian 𒐞 (nēr).
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