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English
Etymology
dodeca- + -ad
Pronunciation
Noun
dodecad (plural dodecads)
- A group or set of twelve.
1903, H. S. Green, Theoretical Astrology, page 63:We have also examined some of the relations between the two dodecads of signs and houses.
1987, C.R. Long, Twelve gods of Greece and Rome, BRILL, →ISBN, page 117:Plato at any rate assumed that the number twelve befitted the disembodied gods as a perfect number[...] This dodecad of the disembodied gods has been shown by us to proceed from on high triadically, but multiplied by four [...]
2001, John Douglas Turner, Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition, Presses Université Laval, →ISBN, page 207:[...] the lowest pair of transcendent principles, all-begetter Savior and all-begettress Sophia, produced a dodecad of twelve equally paired powers, six male and six female.
- 1966, Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Spurious and Doubtful Works:
- Marcos, according to Irenaeus, also assumed a decad of ten heavenly circles and a dodecad of twelve zodiacal signs. The dodecad represents evil, earthly fate, but the decad is "soul-producing,"
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Coordinate terms
- (group) monad, duad/dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, hebdomad/heptad, ogdoad/octad, ennead/nonad, decad/decade, hendecad, dodecad/duodecade, chiliad
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