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English
Etymology
From Late Latin perioeci, from Ancient Greek περίοικοι (períoikoi), plural of περίοικος (períoikos, “neighbour”), from περι- (peri-, “peri-”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pɛɹɪˈiːkəs/, /pɛɹɪˈɔɪkəs/
Noun
perioecus (plural perioeci)
- (obsolete) Someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section ii, member 3:How comes it to pass, that in the same site, in one latitude, to such as are periœci, there should be such difference of soil, complexion, colour, metal, air, etc.
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