octaeteris
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀκταετηρίς (oktaetērís, “8-year ”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɑktaɪˈtɪɹɪs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɒktaɪˈtɪəɹɪs/
Noun
octaeteris (plural octaeterides)
- Synonym of octennium: An 8-year period, particularly (historical) in Greek calendrical and astronomical calculations.
- 1852, Edward Greswell, “On the Lunar in Contradistinction to the Solar Modifications of the Primitive Calendar”, in Fasti Temporis Catholici and Origines Kalendariæ. In Four Volumes, volume I, Oxford: At the Oxford University Press, →OCLC, section V (The Octaëteris), page 564:
- The octaëteris, or lunæsolar cycle of eight years, is a form of the lunar reckoning of annual time totally distinct from and independent of the reckoning of solar in the primitive equable calendar.
Related terms
- (adj.): octaeteric, octennial
- (4-year lunar cycle): tetraeteris, tetraeterid
- (19-year lunar cycle): Metonic cycle, enneadecaeteris
- (eight things): octad