ἰσημερινός
isēmerinos

Greek adjective

Last edited: 2025-02-26
Primary meaning equinoctial
Literal translation equinoctial
Variants
ἰσημερινός isēmerinos
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equinoctial astronomical term

(...) ἔστι δὲ ἡ μεγίστη νὺξ κατὰ τὸ ἐν Ῥόδῳ κλίμα ὡρῶν ἰσημερινῶν ιδʹ 𐅶.

‘(...) and the longest night corresponding with the clime in Rhodes contains 14½ equinoctial hours.’

— Geminus 1.12

Genre: astronomy
Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 4

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APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). ἰσημερινός (Lemma #1278). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1278/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). ἰσημερινός (Lemma #1278). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1278/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). ἰσημερινός (Lemma #1278). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1278/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) ἰσημερινός (Lemma #1278), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1278/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1278,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ἰσημερινός ({Lemma} #1278)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1278/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1278/},
}