sossos

发音

/ˈsɒsəs/
/ˈsɒsɒs/

词形变化

sossoi 复数 sossoi

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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. 2.

    One tenth of a neros and one sixtieth of a saros – about 110 days.

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词源

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

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