equinox

English

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Alternative forms

• æquinox (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

From Old French equinoce (French équinoxe), from Medieval Latin equinoxium, from Latin aequinoctium, from aequus (“equal”) + nox (“night”). Replaced Old English efnniht.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkwɪˌnoks/, /ˈiːkwɪˌnɒks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈiːkwəˌnɑːks/

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Noun

equinox (plural equinoxes or equinoctes)

1. The intersection of the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun) with the celestial equator.

Hyponyms

• autumn equinox
• autumnal equinox
• March equinox
• September equinox
• spring equinox
• vernal equinox

Derived terms

• equinoctial
• interequinoctial
• northward equinox
• precession of the equinoxes
• southward equinox

Coordinate terms

• solstice

Translations

intersection of the ecliptic with the celestial equator

• Armenian: գիշերահավասար (gišerahavasar)
• Asturian: equinocciu m
• Bulgarian: равноденствие n (ravnodénstvie)
• Catalan: equinocci m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 晝夜平分點 (zh), 昼夜平分点 (zhòuyè píngfēndiǎn), 二分點, 二分点 (zh) (èrfēndiǎn)

• Czech: rovnodennost (cs) f
• Danish: jævndøgn
• Dutch: nachtevening (nl), dag-en-nachtevening (nl), equinox (nl)
• Esperanto: ekvinokso
• Finnish: päiväntasaus (fi)
• French: équinoxe (fr) m
• Galician: equinoccio (gl) m
• German: Äquinoktium (de) n, Tagundnachtgleiche (de) f
• Greek: ισημερία (el) f (isimería)
• Hungarian: napéjegyenlőség (hu)
• Icelandic: jafndægur n
• Ido: equinoxo (io)
• Interlingua: equinoctio
• Irish: cónocht f

• Italian: equinozio (it) m
• Japanese: 分点 (ぶんてん, bunten)
• Korean: 분점 (ko) (bunjeom) (分點 (ko))
• Latin: aequinoctium n
• Norwegian: jevndøgn n
• Persian: اعتدال (fa) (e'tedâl)
• Polish: równonoc (pl) f, ekwinokcjum (pl) n
• Portuguese: equinócio (pt) m
• Romanian: echinox (ro) n, echinocțiu (ro) n
• Russian: равноденствие (ru) n (ravnodénstvije)
• Scottish Gaelic: co-fhad-thràth m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: равнодневница f, равнодневица f

  Roman: ravnodnevnica f, ravnodnevica f

• Slovene: enakonočje (sl) n, ekvinokcij m
• Spanish: equinoccio (es) m
• Swedish: dagjämning (sv)
• Thai: วิษุวัต (wisuwat)
• Turkish: ekinoks (tr)
• Vietnamese: điểm phân
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