sossos
/ˈsɒsəs/
sossos noun: a quantity of 60, such as a period of 60 years.
Noun
sossos (plural sossoi)
- 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... - Berossos used in his accounts saroi, neroi, and sossoi. A saros is a unit of time that consists of 3,600 years, a neros of 600 years, and a sossos of 60 years2001, Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John Moore Wickersham, Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated: Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt., University of Michigan Press
- February 1984, Jöran Friberg, "Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records." Scientific American, volume 250, number 2, page 110.
- One tenth of a neros and one sixtieth of a saros – about 110 days.
Forms of sossos
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Origin of sossos
From Ancient Greek σῶσσος (sôssos), from Akkadian 𒋗𒅆 (šūši, “a unit of sixty”).
Questions about sossos
- What does sossos mean?
- Sossos means a quantity of 60, such as a period of 60 years.
- What part of speech is sossos?
- Sossos is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sossos?
- Sossos is pronounced /ˈsɒsəs/.
- What is the plural of sossos?
- The plural of sossos is sossoi.
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