epagomenal

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek αἱ ἐπαγόμεναι (ἡμέραι) (hai epagómenai (hēmérai), “the five intercalated days of the calendar of the Egyptians”), from ἐπάγω (epágō, “I bring in”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɛpəˈɡɒmənəl/

Adjective

epagomenal (not comparable)

1. (in certain calendar systems) intercalary
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 211:

     The gods are immortal and therefore they are not born in the human social time of the year; they are born "outside" in the larger frame of the epagomenal days.

   • 1997, Leo Depuyt, Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt, Peeters, p. 57.

     [The Ancient Egyptian calendar had] 12 months each 30 days long followed by five epagomenal days.

See also

• embolismic
• intercalation