octaeteris

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀκταετηρίς (oktaetērís, 8-year [period]).

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octaeteris (plural octaeterides)

  1. Synonym of octennium: An 8-year period, particularly (historical) in Greek calendrical and astronomical calculations.
    • 1852, Edward Greswell, “On the Lunar in Contradistinction to the Solar Modifications of the Primitive Calendar”, in Fasti Temporis Catholici and Origines Kalendariæ. [...] In Four Volumes, volume I, Oxford: At the Oxford University Press, →OCLC, section V (The Octaëteris), page 564:
      The octaëteris, or lunæsolar cycle of eight years, is a form of the lunar reckoning of annual time totally distinct from and independent of the reckoning of solar in the primitive equable calendar.
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