autumnal equinoxn.

Brit.

/ɔːˌtʌmn(ə)l ˈɛkwᵻnɒks/,

/ɔːˌtʌmn(ə)l ˈiːkwᵻnɒks/, U.S.

/ɔˌtəmn(ə)l ˈɛkwəˌnɑks/,

/ɑˌtəmn(ə)l ˈɛkwəˌnɑks/,

/ɔˌtəmn(ə)l ˈikwəˌnɑks/,

/ɑˌtəmn(ə)l ˈikwəˌnɑks/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: autumnal adj., equinox n.

Etymology: < autumnal adj. + equinox n., after classical Latin autumnāle aequinoctium. Compare Anglo-Norman autompnele equinox (13th cent. or earlier) and Middle French equinoxe autonnal (16th cent.; French équinoxe automnal ). Compare earlier vernal equinox at vernal adj. 1a, and compare also autumn equinox n. at autumn n. Compounds 5, spring equinox n.Compare also earlier equinoctial autumnal in similar use:a1544 R. Barlow tr. M. Fernández de Enciso Brief Summe Geogr. (1932) 5 Contrarywise when the sonne comyth to the furst poynt of libra then is the equynoctiall autumpnale, for then are the daies and nyghtes of one length in descenstion of the sonne from us toward the pole antartike.

Originally: the time (in the northern hemisphere) when the sun crosses the celestial equator in a southerly direction; the day (usually 22 or 23 September) when this occurs, and when day and night are equal in length. In later use also: the time (in the southern hemisphere) when the sun crosses the celestial equator in a northerly direction, or the day (usually 20 or 21 March) when this occurs. Also: either of the corresponding equinoctial points. Cf. equinox n. 1, vernal equinox at vernal adj. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > cycle of time > cycle of the year > [noun] > equinox

evenlengtha1325

equinoctiumc1400

equinoctial?a1475

equinoction1483

vernal equinox (or equinoctial)1534

level1548

equinox1588

autumnal equinox1594

autumn equinox1594

equinoctian1627

fall equinox1844

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xvi. f. 149 The Colure of the Equinoxes is so called because it cutteth the Zodiaque in the beginning of Aries, which is called the vernal Equinoxe: and also in the beginning of Libra, which is called the Autumnall Equinoxe, at which two times the dayes and nightes be equall.

1678 T. Hobbes Decameron Physiologicum iv. 38 From the Autumnal Æquinox to the Vernal, there be but 178 days.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 74 The Sun being..in its Autumnal Equinox, was almost just over my Head.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. 540 The mode which was lately adopted in France, where the republican year began at the instant of the midnight preceding the sun's arrival at the autumnal equinox.

1865 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell (1866) xv. 137 In the height of summer, [his colour was] a dappled bay; towards the autumnal equinox, a tendency to nuttiness.

1900 Bay of Plenty Times (Tauranga, N.Z.) 23 Mar. 2/3 The autumnal equinox has arrived but without the proverbial gales.

1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) iv. iv. 277 This was the climactic growth we'd been waiting for,..triggered by the autumnal equinox and the declining days that succeeded it.

2013 S. Sorenson Birds in Yard 252 September marks the autumnal equinox, that single day halfway between summer and winter, when day and night each last twelve hours.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	autumnal equinox
释义	autumnal equinoxn. Brit. /ɔːˌtʌmn(ə)l ˈɛkwᵻnɒks/, /ɔːˌtʌmn(ə)l ˈiːkwᵻnɒks/, U.S. /ɔˌtəmn(ə)l ˈɛkwəˌnɑks/, /ɑˌtəmn(ə)l ˈɛkwəˌnɑks/, /ɔˌtəmn(ə)l ˈikwəˌnɑks/, /ɑˌtəmn(ə)l ˈikwəˌnɑks/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: autumnal adj., equinox n. Etymology: < autumnal adj. + equinox n., after classical Latin autumnāle aequinoctium. Compare Anglo-Norman autompnele equinox (13th cent. or earlier) and Middle French equinoxe autonnal (16th cent.; French équinoxe automnal ). Compare earlier vernal equinox at vernal adj. 1a, and compare also autumn equinox n. at autumn n. Compounds 5, spring equinox n.Compare also earlier equinoctial autumnal in similar use:a1544 R. Barlow tr. M. Fernández de Enciso Brief Summe Geogr. (1932) 5 Contrarywise when the sonne comyth to the furst poynt of libra then is the equynoctiall autumpnale, for then are the daies and nyghtes of one length in descenstion of the sonne from us toward the pole antartike. Originally: the time (in the northern hemisphere) when the sun crosses the celestial equator in a southerly direction; the day (usually 22 or 23 September) when this occurs, and when day and night are equal in length. In later use also: the time (in the southern hemisphere) when the sun crosses the celestial equator in a northerly direction, or the day (usually 20 or 21 March) when this occurs. Also: either of the corresponding equinoctial points. Cf. equinox n. 1, vernal equinox at vernal adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > cycle of time > cycle of the year > [noun] > equinox evenlengtha1325 equinoctiumc1400 equinoctial?a1475 equinoction1483 vernal equinox (or equinoctial)1534 level1548 equinox1588 autumnal equinox1594 autumn equinox1594 equinoctian1627 fall equinox1844 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xvi. f. 149 The Colure of the Equinoxes is so called because it cutteth the Zodiaque in the beginning of Aries, which is called the vernal Equinoxe: and also in the beginning of Libra, which is called the Autumnall Equinoxe, at which two times the dayes and nightes be equall. 1678 T. Hobbes Decameron Physiologicum iv. 38 From the Autumnal Æquinox to the Vernal, there be but 178 days. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 74 The Sun being..in its Autumnal Equinox, was almost just over my Head. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. 540 The mode which was lately adopted in France, where the republican year began at the instant of the midnight preceding the sun's arrival at the autumnal equinox. 1865 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell (1866) xv. 137 In the height of summer, [his colour was] a dappled bay; towards the autumnal equinox, a tendency to nuttiness. 1900 Bay of Plenty Times (Tauranga, N.Z.) 23 Mar. 2/3 The autumnal equinox has arrived but without the proverbial gales. 1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) iv. iv. 277 This was the climactic growth we'd been waiting for,..triggered by the autumnal equinox and the declining days that succeeded it. 2013 S. Sorenson Birds in Yard 252 September marks the autumnal equinox, that single day halfway between summer and winter, when day and night each last twelve hours. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1594
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