Meanings
plural octaeterides
- Synonym of octennium: An 8-year period, particularly (historical) in Greek calendrical and astronomical calculations.
The octaëteris, or lunæsolar cycle of eight years, is a form of the lunar reckoning of annual time totally distinct from and independent of the reckoning of solar in the primitive equable calendar.
1852, Edward Greswell, “On the Lunar in Contradistinction to the Solar Modifications of the Primitive Calendar”, in Fasti Temporis Catholici and Origines Kalendariæ. … In Four Volumes, volume I, Oxford: At the Oxford University Press, →OCLC, section V (The Octaëteris), page 564Synonyms: octennium
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of octennium: An 8-year period, particularly (historical) in Greek calendrical and astronomical calculations.
Origin
- Ancient Greekὀκταετηρίς“8-year [period]”
- Englishoctaeteris
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀκταετηρίς (oktaetērís, “8-year [period]”).
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French octaétéride
- octaétérideoctennium — see also octennium
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