Thoth

Via Latin from Ancient Greek Θώθ (Thṓth), from Egyptian ḏḥwtj (“Thoth”, literally “he who is like the ibis”) .

Compare Coptic Ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ (Thōout).

• IPA^(key): /θəʊθ/

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Thoth

1. (Egyptian mythology) The ancient Egyptian moon god of wisdom, learning, and magic, usually depicted as an ibis or baboon.
2. The first month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the first month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Thoth has been in roughly September.
   • 1762, John Kennedy, A Complete System of Astronomical Chronology Unfolding the Scriptures:

     To November 1 add 7, and the ſum will ſhew, that the ſeventh day of Thoth fell, that year, upon the eighth day of November.

   • 1842, Frederick Portal, “Correspondence—Swedenborg and Champollion”, in The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, Etc, volume 21:

     Now the month of Thoth was the first of the Egyptian year, because this month begins a new period.

   • 1989, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, volume 56:

     In that case this quadrimenstruum would be the first one of the Egyptian year, Thoth, Phaophi, Hathyr, Choeac.

• (Egyptian calendar months) Egyptian calendar months; Thoth, Phaophi, Hathyr, Choiak, Tybi, Mecheir, Phamenoth, Pharmouthi, Pachon, Pauni, Epeiph, Mesore ^{(Category: en:Egyptian calendar months)}