neros

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek νῆρος (nêros), from Akkadian 𒐞 (nēr).

Noun

neros (plural neroses or neroi)

  1. (history, Babylon) A period of 600 years.
    • 1872, Arthur Dyot Thomson, On Mankind: Their Origin and Destiny, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 648:
      the progressive subdivisions of the saroses of 3,600 years, of the neroses of 600 years, and of the sosses [sic] of 60 years have the same progression as the divisions and subdivisions of the zodiac
  2. (astronomy, archaic, rare) One sixth of a saros, or about three years.

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