Ἀδάρ

Adar
Greek · noun
variant Ἀδαεὶ : Adaei
Edited by: Thomas Peeters
Last edited: 2024-11-03
Meanings
Literal translation
Xandikos
Categories
month
time interval
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. Xandikos

1.a Xandikos month, time interval

month VI in the Macedonian calendar

Ἀδάρ· μὴν παρὰ Χαλδαίοις

‘Adar: a month according to the Chaldeans.’

— Hesychius α 972

Genre: lexicon Provenance: Alexandria Date: 4th-6th century CE

Hesychius Alexandrinus. 2018. Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon, Vol. 1 (A - Delta), ed. I.C. Cunningham. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter. 46

In the manuscript, only the reading Ἀδαεὶ is attested.
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2024). Ἀδάρ (Lemma #2258). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2258/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2024). Ἀδάρ (Lemma #2258). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2258/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2024). Ἀδάρ (Lemma #2258). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2258/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2024) Ἀδάρ (Lemma #2258), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2258/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2258,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {Ἀδάρ ({Lemma} #2258)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2258/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2258/},
}