English Explanatory Dictionary

epagomena

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Time (usually five days) appended to a calendar year, outside of any regular month, to make the year 365 days long (in e.g. the ancient Egyptian calendar and in the French Republican calendar).

Word forms

epagomena

Etymology

From the neuter plural of Ancient Greek ἐπαγόμενος (epagómenos, “added on”), used by Greek writers of antiquity to describe the five epagomenal days of the calendar of the Egyptians.

Related words

embolismic month a month inserted into a calendar year to synchronize the calendar with the seasons intercalation timekeeping adjustments to synchronize a calendar with a solar year and or the seasons

Derived words

epagomenic
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