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aequinoctium

aequinoctium · n

the time of equal days and nights

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 30 · 3.81/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Naturalis Historia 83 · 2.09/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 12 · 1.7/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
De bello Gallico 2 · 0.39/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

aequĭnoctĭum — Lewis & Short

aequĭnoctĭum, i, n.aequus-nox,

I the time of equal days and nights, the equinox, Cic. Att. 12, 28, 3; Caes. B. G. 4, 36; cf. id. ib. 5, 23, Varr. L. L. 6, § 8 Müll.: autumnale, Liv 31, 47: vernum, id. 33, 3: aestus duobus aequinoctiis maxime tumentes et autumnali amplius quam verno, etc., Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 215.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. aequinoctium (scan p. 35; entry #224).

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