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Leap year - Wikipedia
A leap year (also known as an intercalary year or bissextile year) is a calendar year that contains an additional day (or, in the case of a lunisolar calendar, ...
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What is a Bissextile Year? - Merriam-Webster
Bissextile day comes from the Latin bissextus and means the 'second sixth day or 'double sixth day.' In other words, it's a old name for leap day.
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BISSEXTILE Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
adjective containing or noting the extra day of leap year: The years 1980 and 1984 were both bissextile.
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bissextile
bissextile, a. and n. (bɪˈsɛkstɪl) [ad. L. bi(s)sextilis (annus), i.e. (the year) of the bissextus: see prec.] A. adj. Containing the bissextus or extra day which the Julian calendar inserts in leap-year. bissextile day (= L. bissextus dies; see above).[1398 The yere Bisextilis: see prec..] 1594 Blu...
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bissextile - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Adjective · English terms derived from Latin · English 3-syllable words · English terms with IPA pronunciation · English terms with audio pronunciation ...
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Bissextus - Wikipedia
Bissext, or bissextus (from Latin bis 'twice' and sextus 'sixth') is the leap day which is added to the Julian calendar every fourth year.
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BISSEXTILE | Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
noun : leap day See the full definition bissextile year noun : leap year in the Julian or Gregorian calendar See the full definition
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A.Word.A.Day --bissextile - Wordsmith.org
MEANING: adjective: Relating to the leap year or the extra day in a leap year. noun: Leap year. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin bisextilis annus (leap year) ...
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Bissextile - Websters Dictionary 1828
BISSEX'TILE, noun [Latin bissextilis, leap year, from bissextus, [bis and sextus] the sixth of the calends of March, or twenty-fourth day of February, ...
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Meaning of bissextile in English - Cambridge Dictionary
Correctly a leap year is termed a bissextile year. Any year divisible by 4, except centenary years, is bissextile. The Romans referred to February 23 as the ...
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bissextile, adj. & n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the word bissextile is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for bissextile is from 1398, in ...
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bissext
† biˈssext Obs. In 4–6 bisext(e, 6 (bisex), bysext. [ad. L. bi(s)sextus (dies), f. bis twice + sextus sixth, the name given to the intercalary day inserted by the Julian calendar every fourth year after the sixth day before the calends of March, or 24th of February.] prop. The intercalary day in lea...
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Concurrent (Easter)
The insertion of the sixth epagomenal day immediately before was compensated for by the bissextile day inserted six months later into the Julian calendar It skips a concurrent every four years due to a bissextile day in the Julian calendar a month earlier.
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Proleptic Gregorian calendar
and proleptic Gregorian calendar dates are as follows:
The table below assumes a Julian leap day of 29 February, but the Julian leap day, that is, the bissextile
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intercalary
intercalary, a. (ɪnˈtɜːkələrɪ) [ad. L. intercalāri-us or intercalāri-s, f. intercalāre to intercalate.] 1. Of a day, days, or month: Inserted at intervals in the calendar in order to bring an inexact reckoning of the year into harmony with the solar year. In the Jewish, Greek and Roman calendars, in...
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