antoeci
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See also: antœci
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Etymology[edit]
From the Latin antoecī, from the Ancient Greek ἄντοικοι (ántoikoi, “dwellers opposite”), from ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “dwelling”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ăntēʹsī, IPA(key): /ænˈtiːsaɪ/
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Noun[edit]
antoeci pl (plural only)
- The inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero.
- 1622, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie in Four Bookes, Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, published 1674, introduction, page 20, column 1:
- Antœci are such as dwell under the same Meridian and the same Latitude or Parallel equally distant from the Æquator; the one northward, the other Southward; the days in both places being of a length; but the Summer of the one being the others winter.
- 1684, Thomas Burnet, The Theory of the Earth[1], book 2, published 1697, page 174:
- Antichthones…comprehend both the Antipodes and Antœci, or all beyond the Line[.]
- 1796, Charles Hutton, A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, volume 1, page 121, column 1:
- Antœci…have their noon, or midnight, or any other hour at the same time; but their seasons are contrary, being spring to the one, when it is autumn with the other.
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Translations[edit]
the inhabitants of the place at the opposite degree of latitude
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References[edit]
- “‖antœci, n. pl.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
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Noun[edit]
antoecī