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antœci

antœci is the obsolete spelling of antoeci.

Meaning of antoeci

Noun

antoeci pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero.
    • Antœci are such as dwell under the same Meridian and the same Latitude or Parallel equally distant from the Æquator; the one northward, the other Southward; the days in both places being of a length; but the Summer of the one being the others winter.1622, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie in Four Bookes, Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, published 1674, introduction, page 20, column 1

Questions about antœci

What is antœci the obsolete spelling of?
Antœci is the obsolete spelling of antoeci.

Words near antœci in the dictionary

  1. anty-mires
  2. antyesti
  3. antygidium
  4. Antzoulides
  5. Antártica Chilena
  6. antœci
  7. Anu
  8. Anuak
  9. Anuaks
  10. anually
  11. anubandha

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antœci (page history and authors); antoeci (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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