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epagomena

epagomena noun: time (usually five days) appended to a calendar year, outside of any regular month, to make the year 365 days long (in e.g. the ancient Egyptian calendar and in the French Republican calendar).

Noun

epagomena (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Time (usually five days) appended to a calendar year, outside of any regular month, to make the year 365 days long (in e.g. the ancient Egyptian calendar and in the French Republican calendar).
    • [The Ancient Egyptian calendar had] 12 months each 30 days long followed by five epagomenal days.1997, Leo Depuyt, Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt, Peeters, page 57

Origin of epagomena

From the neuter plural of Ancient Greek ἐπαγόμενος (epagómenos, “added on”), used by Greek writers of antiquity to describe the five epagomenal days of the calendar of the Egyptians.

Words formed from epagomena

Questions about epagomena

What does epagomena mean?
Epagomena means time (usually five days) appended to a calendar year, outside of any regular month, to make the year 365 days long (in e.g. the ancient Egyptian calendar and in the French Republican calendar).
What part of speech is epagomena?
Epagomena is a noun.

Words near epagomena in the dictionary

  1. epactal
  2. epacts
  3. epaenetic
  4. epagoge
  5. epagogic
  6. epagomena
  7. epagomenal
  8. epagomenic
  9. epainetic
  10. epaleaceous
  11. epalon

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