epagomena

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Time (usually five days) appended to a calendar year, outside of any regular month, to make the year 365 days long (in e.g. the ancient Egyptian calendar and in the French Republican calendar). rare,uncountable
    — [The Ancient Egyptian calendar had] 12 months each 30 days long followed by five epagomenal days.

词源

From the neuter plural of Ancient Greek ἐπαγόμενος (epagómenos, “added on”), used by Greek writers of antiquity to describe the five epagomenal days of the calendar of the Egyptians.
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