metemptosis

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the leap day once in 134 years. historical,uncountable

词汇关系

反义词
proemptosis

词源

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μετέμπτωσις (metémptōsis), from μετεμπίπτω (metempíptō).
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