leap yearn.

Brit.

/ˈliːp jɪə/,

/ˈliːp jəː/, U.S.

/ˈlip ˌjɪ(ə)r/

Etymology: Late Middle English, < leap n.¹; probably of much older formation, as the Old Norse hlaup-ár is presumably, like other terms of the Roman calendar, imitated from English. The name may refer to the fact that in the bissextile year any fixed festival after Feb. falls on the next week-day but one to that on which it fell in the preceding year, not on the next week-day as usual. Compare medieval Latin saltus lunae (Old English mónan hlýp), the omission of a day in the reckoning of the lunar month, made every nineteen years to bring the calendar into accord with the astronomical phenomena.

A year having one day (now February 29) more than the common year; a bissextile year. †to make leap year of (figurative): to pass over.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > adjustments in calculations > leap year

leap yeara1387

bissext1531

bissextile1581

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 199 Þat tyme Iulius amended þe kalender, and fonde þe cause of the lepe ȝere [L. rationem bisexti invenit].

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. xxxi. 127 Bysexte or lepe yere, whiche in iiij yere falleth ones.

1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigrammes xlvi, in Wks. sig. Civ The next leape yere after wedding was first made.

1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall xix. sig. F3^v In ciuile entries to heritage, if it be for the better, men can make leap-yeare of their father and seeke farther uppe.

1705 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 2) I. i. i. 4 That Year was called the Bissextile: and by us Leap-Year, because one Day of the Week is leaped over in the Observation of the Festivals.

1834 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III. Astron. i. 44/1 The years 1600, 2000, 2400, would be leap years.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	leap year
释义	leap yearn. Brit. /ˈliːp jɪə/, /ˈliːp jəː/, U.S. /ˈlip ˌjɪ(ə)r/ Etymology: Late Middle English, < leap n.¹; probably of much older formation, as the Old Norse hlaup-ár is presumably, like other terms of the Roman calendar, imitated from English. The name may refer to the fact that in the bissextile year any fixed festival after Feb. falls on the next week-day but one to that on which it fell in the preceding year, not on the next week-day as usual. Compare medieval Latin saltus lunae (Old English mónan hlýp), the omission of a day in the reckoning of the lunar month, made every nineteen years to bring the calendar into accord with the astronomical phenomena. A year having one day (now February 29) more than the common year; a bissextile year. †to make leap year of (figurative): to pass over. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > adjustments in calculations > leap year leap yeara1387 bissext1531 bissextile1581 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 199 Þat tyme Iulius amended þe kalender, and fonde þe cause of the lepe ȝere [L. rationem bisexti invenit]. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. xxxi. 127 Bysexte or lepe yere, whiche in iiij yere falleth ones. 1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigrammes xlvi, in Wks. sig. Civ The next leape yere after wedding was first made. 1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall xix. sig. F3^v In ciuile entries to heritage, if it be for the better, men can make leap-yeare of their father and seeke farther uppe. 1705 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 2) I. i. i. 4 That Year was called the Bissextile: and by us Leap-Year, because one Day of the Week is leaped over in the Observation of the Festivals. 1834 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III. Astron. i. 44/1 The years 1600, 2000, 2400, would be leap years. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1387
随便看	inarticulacy inarticulate inarticulated inarticulately inarticulateness inarticulatenesses inarticulates inarticulation inartificial inartificiality inartificially inartistic inartistical inartisticality inartistically inasmuch inasmuch as inasperate inassimilable inassimilation inassuageable inassurance inattackable inattention inattentions