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English
Pronunciation
Noun
ephemerides
- plural of ephemeris
Noun
ephemerides
- (plural taken as singular) An ephemeris.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Exercise rectified of Body and Minde”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 4, page 236:Or let him [that is melancholy] calculate Sphæricall Triangles, caſt a Natiuity, make an Ephemerides, read Suiſſet the Calculators vvorkes, Scaliger de emendatione temporum, till he vnderſtand it, read Scotus and Suarez Metaphyſicks, or Schoole Divinity, Occam, Entisberus, Durand &c.
Latin
Noun
ephēmeridēs
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ephēmeris