sossos

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/ˈsɒsəs//ˈsɒsɒs/

noun

A quantity of 60, such as a period of 60 years.

Scrabble 6

Meanings

nounsossos (plural sossoi)

plural sossoi

  1. BabylonhistoryA quantity of 60, such as a period of 60 years.

    Berossos used in his accounts saroi, neroi, and sossoi. A saros is a unit of time that consists of 3,600 years, a neros of 600 years, and a sossos of 60 years

    2001, Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John Moore Wickersham, Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated: Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt., University of Michigan Press
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    February 1984, Jöran Friberg, "Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records." Scientific American, volume 250, number 2, page 110. There in about 340 B.C. the founder of a school of astrology, a Babylonian named Berossos, wrote a history of his homeland. In it he told his Greek readers that the numbers sossos (60), neros (600) and saros (3,600) occupied a special place in Babylonian arithmetic and astronomy.

  2. archaicrareastronomyOne tenth of a neros and one sixtieth of a saros – about 110 days.

Origin

  1. Akkadian𒋗𒅆“a unit of sixty”
  2. Ancient Greekσῶσσος
  3. Englishsossos

From Ancient Greek σῶσσος (sôssos), from Akkadian 𒋗𒅆 (šūši, “a unit of sixty”).

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sossos. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sossos

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“sossos.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sossos. Accessed November 3, 2026.

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