високосный

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Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic високостныи (visokostnyi), from високостъ (visokostŭ, leap day), from Byzantine Greek βίσεξτος (bísextos), from Late Latin bissextus, from Latin bisextus.

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Adjective

високо́сный (visokósnyj)

  1. (relational) leap (referring to leap years, leap days, etc.)

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