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perioeci

perioeci is the plural of perioecus.

Meaning of perioecus

Noun

perioecus (plural perioeci)

  1. (obsolete) Someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis.
    • 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.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...

Questions about perioeci

What is perioeci the plural of?
Perioeci is the plural of perioecus.

Words near perioeci in the dictionary

  1. periodoscopes
  2. periods
  3. periods of time
  4. periodt
  5. periodynia
  6. perioeci
  7. Perioecian
  8. Perioecians
  9. perioecus
  10. perioesophageal
  11. perioestrous

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