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单词 hendecad
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hendecadn.

Brit. /ˌhɛnˈdɛkad/, U.S. /ˌhɛnˈdɛkæd/
Forms: Old English 1700s–1800s endecade, 1800s– endecad, 1800s– hendecad, 1800s– hendecade, 1900s– endekad.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin hendecad-, hendecas; Greek ἑνδεκάδ-, ἑνδεκάς.
Etymology: < (i) post-classical Latin hendecad-, hendecas (5th cent.), and its etymon (ii) ancient Greek ἑνδεκάδ-, ἑνδεκάς the number eleven < ἕνδεκα eleven (see hendeca- comb. form) + -άς -ad suffix1.In later use partly via French endecade (1684 in the passage translated in quot. 1724). The word was reborrowed in the 18th cent.; there is no continuity with the Old English use.
A group, set, or series of eleven things; spec. (esp. in Old English) a period of eleven years. Formerly also occasionally: †the number eleven (obsolete).
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years
hendecadOE
a week of yearsa1382
weekc1384
Olympiada1387
lustre1387
yearc1425
millenary1551
prenticeship1553
septenary1576
lustrum1590
quinquennal1590
seventy1590
septimane1603
quinquennie1606
threescore (years) and tena1616
duodecad1621
quinquennium1621
jubilee1643
quadrenniala1646
chiliad1653
septennary1659
septennium1660
triennial1661
millennium1664
tetraëterid1678
octennial1679
duodenary1681
quadrennium1779
septenniad1836
quinquenniad1842
milliad1843
tricentenary1846
triennium1847
vicennium1847
bimillenary1850
lustration1853
sexennium1858
septennate1874
quinquennial1877
pentad1880
sexennate1898
aeon1960
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > eleven
elevenc890
hendecadOE
levenc1480
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > eleven > eleven things, persons, etc.
elevenc890
hendecadOE
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. ii. 100 On þam þriddan endecade beoð syx and twentig ępactę.
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. ii. 100 Witodlice on þam ytemestan geare þæs endecades synt eahtatyne ępactę.
1724 tr. F. Blondel Hist. Rom. Cal. in Bibliotheca Literaria No. vii. 4 The Ancients..always made the Partition of this Cycle into the Ogdoade, and Endecade [Fr. en Ogdoade & Endecade], or the Terms of 8 and 11.
1801 T. Taylor tr. Aristotle Metaphysics xiii. viii. 351 It is also absurd that there should be an idea of the decad, and not of the endecad [Gk. ἑνδεκάδος], nor of the numbers consequent to the endecad.
1912 J. W. White Verse of Greek Comedy 456 First dyad of the hendecad, in Aeolic rhythm.
1964 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 22 478/2 A structure composed of 2 intermediate elements and 9 sarcotubules, hence a hendecad.
2008 A. A. Mosshammer Easter Computus & Origins Christian Era (2009) iv. 63 He [sc. Dionysius Exiguus] divides the 19-year cycle into sections of eight and eleven years, there being..four embolismic years in the 11-year segment (the hendecad).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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