sossos

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A quantity of 60, such as a period of 60 years.
    — February 1984, Jöran Friberg, "Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records." Scientific American, volume 250, number 2, page 110. There in about 340 B.C. the founder of a school of astrology, a Babylonian named Berossos, wrote a history of his homeland. In it he told his Greek readers that the numbers sossos (60), neros (600) and saros (3,600) occupied a special place in Babylonian arithmetic and astronomy.
  2. One tenth of a neros and one sixtieth of a saros – about 110 days. archaic,rare

词形变化

sossoi plural

词汇关系

相关词
saros neros

词源

From Ancient Greek σῶσσος (sôssos), from Akkadian 𒋗𒅆 (šūši, “a unit of sixty”).
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