Ἀδάρ
Adar

Greek noun
loaned from Akkadian

Last edited: 2024-11-03
Primary meaning Xandikos
Literal translation Xandikos
Variants
Ἀδάρ Adar restored reading
Ἀδαεὶ Adaei rare
Edited by
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: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2258,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {Ἀδάρ ({Lemma} #2258)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2258/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2258/},
}