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Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
bisextilis (neuter bisextile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (relational) leap year, bissextile
1553, Luminarum atque Planetarum motuum Tabulae octogina quinque, omnium ex his quae Alphonsum sequuntur quam faciles:Anni videlicet solares ex diebus 365 et quarta partes unius diei: quorum tres primi solum ex 365 diebus pro quolibet numerantur, qui non bissextiles dicuntur: quartus vero, ex 366 diebus componitur, et bissextilis nuncupatur.- Every solar year is 365 and a quarter days: of these, each of the first three number 365 days, and they are called non-bissextiles, while the fourth, composed of 366 days, is called bissextile.
- intercalary
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
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