‖ equinoctium Obs. rare.
Pl. equinoctia, -ums. Also 5 equenoxium, 6–7 æquinoctium.
[L. æquinoctium, f. æquus equal + nox, noctis night.]
Equinox; (the original form in which the word was adopted).
| c 1400 Mandeville xvii. (1839) 183 [At Jerusalem]..a spere that is pight in to the erthe, vpon the hour of mydday whan it is Equenoxium..scheweth no schadwe. 1563 Shute Archit. B iij b, He should directly know..that, whiche they call Equinoctium, and Solsticium. 1607–12 Bacon Ess. Sedit. & Troub. (Arb.) 390 Natural Tempestes are greatest about the æquinoctia. a 1625 Fletcher Nice Valour i. i, Give me a man..Has a good stroke at tennis..Can play at æquinoctium with the line. 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 16 The Colure of the Equinoctiums or equinoxes. |