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Latin
Etymology
From aequus + nox + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
aequinoctium n (genitive aequinoctiī or aequinoctī); second declension
- equinox
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “aequinoctium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aequinoctium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aequinoctium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “aequinoctium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “aequinoctium”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press