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Tybi

Tybi proper noun: the fifth month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the first month of the season of Peret. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Tybi has been in roughly January.

Proper noun

Tybi

  1. The fifth month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the first month of the season of Peret. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Tybi has been in roughly January.
    • But it is also worth remarking, that the 11 Tybi vague of the 15th Tiberius is the 25 December (a. d. 28), just thirty Julian years after the Nativity, if this was referred to 28 Augustus (b. c. 3) and to the day which the Church ultimately consecrated to the commemoration of the Nativity.1854, Henry Browne, “S. Clemens Alex. on New Testament Chronology”, in The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology, volume 1
    • Now in the 10th year of Antonine the 18th Tybi of the vague year agrees with the 16th Tybi of the fixed year beginning 20 July and therefore with the 2nd November of the Julian year, and it follows that the month Hadrianus began upon the 25th November.1867, C. W. Goodwin, “Notes on the Calendar question” in Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Alterthumskunde, September and October 1867 issue

Forms of Tybi

alternative formTobi
alternative formTubah
alternative formTubi

Origin of Tybi

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τυβί (Tubí), from Egyptian t-A-a-b-t:Z5-W3:ra (tꜣ-ꜥꜣbt, literally “the offering”). Compare Coptic Ⲧⲱⲃⲓ (Tōbi).

Questions about Tybi

What does Tybi mean?
Tybi means the fifth month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the first month of the season of Peret. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Tybi has been in roughly January.
What part of speech is Tybi?
Tybi is a proper noun.

Words near Tybi in the dictionary

  1. Tyap
  2. Tyapic
  3. Tyaps
  4. Tybalt
  5. tybamate
  6. Tybi
  7. Tyburn
  8. Tyburn gallows
  9. Tyburn ticket
  10. Tyburn tickets
  11. Tyburn tippet

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