antoeci
See also: antœci
English
WOTD – 10 February 2011
Etymology
From the Latin antoecī, from the Ancient Greek ἄντοικοι (ántoikoi, “dwellers opposite”), from ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “dwelling”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ăntēʹsī, IPA(key): /ænˈtiːsaɪ/
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Noun
antoeci pl (plural only)
- The inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero.
- 1622, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie in Four Bookes, Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, published 1674, introduction, page 20, column 1:
- Antœci are such as dwell under the same Meridian and the same Latitude or Parallel equally distant from the Æquator; the one northward, the other Southward; the days in both places being of a length; but the Summer of the one being the others winter.
- 1684, Thomas Burnet, The Theory of the Earth, book 2, published 1697, page 174:
- Antichthones…comprehend both the Antipodes and Antœci, or all beyond the Line[.]
- 1796, Charles Hutton, A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, volume 1, page 121, column 1:
- Antœci…have their noon, or midnight, or any other hour at the same time; but their seasons are contrary, being spring to the one, when it is autumn with the other.
Derived terms
Translations
the inhabitants of the place at the opposite degree of latitude
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See also
References
- “‖antœci, n. pl.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
Latin
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