单词 | hendecad |
释义 | hendecadn. 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). ΘΚΠ 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). < n.OE |
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