单词 | sothic cycle or period |
释义 | > as lemmasSothic cycle or period 1. Sothic cycle or period, a period of 1460 full years, containing 1461 of the ancient Egyptian ordinary years. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > in different cultures or calendars Julian period1592 saros1613 octaeteris1645 lustrala1656 biennium1699 Dionysian period1728 Victorian cycle1728 Sothic cycle or period1828 katun1902 1828 J. G. Wilkinson Materia Hieroglyphica App. i. p. ii This period is called ‘the Sothic period’. 1860 R. S. Poole in W. Smith Dict. Bible I. 506/1 The Egyptians are known to have used two great cycles, the Sothic Cycle and the Tropical Cycle. 1892 S. Laing Human Origins (1893) 117 They had invented a sothic cycle for the odd quarter of a day. < as lemmas |
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