Ἄβ
Ab

Greek noun
loaned from Akkadian

Last edited: 2024-11-03
Primary meaning Gorpiaios
Literal translation Gorpiaios
Variants
Ἄβ Ab rare
Edited by
Gorpiaios month, time interval

month XI in the Macedonian calendar

ἄβ· ὁ Γορπιαῖος μήν

‘Ab: the month Gorpiaios.’

— Hesychius α 41

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. 5

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2024). Ἄβ (Lemma #2260). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2260/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2024). Ἄβ (Lemma #2260). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2260/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2024). Ἄβ (Lemma #2260). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2260/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2024) Ἄβ (Lemma #2260), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2260/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2260,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {Ἄβ ({Lemma} #2260)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2260/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2260/},
}