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sossoi

sossoi is the plural of sossos.

Meaning of sossos

Noun

sossos (plural sossoi)

  1. (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...
  2. (archaic, rare) One tenth of a neros and one sixtieth of a saros – about 110 days.

Questions about sossoi

What is sossoi the plural of?
Sossoi is the plural of sossos.

Words near sossoi in the dictionary

  1. sossing
  2. sossle
  3. sossled
  4. sossles
  5. sossling
  6. sossoi
  7. sossos
  8. Sostak
  9. sostenuti
  10. sostenuto
  11. sostenutos

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