ἀρῶς
arōs

Greek noun
loaned from Akkadian

Last edited: 2024-07-15
Primary meaning ?
Literal translation ?
Variants
ἀρῶς arōs rare
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? mathematical quantity: number

possibly 3,600, if equated with σαρός

ἀρῶς· ἀριθμοῦ ὄνομα, παρὰ Πέρσαις

‘arōs: name of a number, according to the Persians.’

— Hesychius α 7607

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. 348

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2024). ἀρῶς (Lemma #2267). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2267/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2024). ἀρῶς (Lemma #2267). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2267/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2024). ἀρῶς (Lemma #2267). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2267/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2024) ἀρῶς (Lemma #2267), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2267/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2267,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {ἀρῶς ({Lemma} #2267)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2267/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2267/},
}