Σιόαν
Sioan

Greek noun
loaned from Akkadian

Last edited: 2024-11-03
Primary meaning Panemos
Literal translation Panemos
Variants
Σιόαν Sioan rare
Σιούαν Siouan rare
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Panemos month, time interval

month IX in the Macedonian calendar

Σιόαν· οὕτω καλοῦσι Χαλδαῖοι τὸν Πάνημον μῆνα.

‘Sioan: that is how the Chaldeans call the month Panemos.’

— Hesychius σ 701

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

Hesychius Alexandrinus. 2005. Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon, Vol. 3 (Pi - Sigma), ed. P.A. Hansen. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. 294

See also

〈SIG〉 simānu ‘Simānu (month III)’

〈—〉 šywn ‘Siwān (month III)’

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2024). Σιόαν (Lemma #2259). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2259/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2024). Σιόαν (Lemma #2259). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2259/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2024). Σιόαν (Lemma #2259). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2259/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2024) Σιόαν (Lemma #2259), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2259/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2259,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {Σιόαν ({Lemma} #2259)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2259/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2259/},
}