Νισᾶν
Nisan

Greek noun
loaned from Akkadian

Last edited: 2024-11-03
Primary meaning Artemisios
Literal translation Artemisios
Variants
Νισᾶν Nisan rare
Edited by
Artemisios month, time interval

month VII in the Macedonian calendar

Νισᾶν· ὁ Ἀρτεμίσιος μήν. καὶ † Ἰλίου πόλις

‘Nisan: the month Artemisios. And Heliopolis.’

— Hesychius ν 587

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

Hesychius Alexandrinus. 2020. Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon, Vol. 2 (a. Epsilon – Iota, b. Kappa – Omicron), ed. I.C. Cunningham. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter. 891

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2024). Νισᾶν (Lemma #2262). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2262/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2024). Νισᾶν (Lemma #2262). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2262/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2024). Νισᾶν (Lemma #2262). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2262/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2024) Νισᾶν (Lemma #2262), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2262/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2262,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {Νισᾶν ({Lemma} #2262)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2262/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2262/},
}