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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σῶσσος (sôssos), from Akkadian 𒋗𒅆 (šu-ši /šūš/, “a unit of sixty”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sossos (plural sossoi)
- (history, Babylon) A quantity of 60, such as a period of 60 years.
- February 1984, Jöran Friberg, "Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records." Scientific American, volume 250, number 2, page 110.
- There in about 340 B.C. the founder of a school of astrology, a Babylonian named Berossos, wrote a history of his homeland. In it he told his Greek readers that the numbers sossos (60), neros (600) and saros (3,600) occupied a special place in Babylonian arithmetic and astronomy.
2001, Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John Moore Wickersham, Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated: Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt., University of Michigan Press:Berossos used in his accounts saroi, neroi, and sossoi. A saros is a unit of time that consists of 3,600 years, a neros of 600 years, and a sossos of 60 years
- (astronomy, archaic, rare) One tenth of a neros and one sixtieth of a saros – about 110 days.
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