perioecus

• periœcus (obsolete)

From Late Latin perioeci, from Ancient Greek περίοικοι (períoikoi), plural of περίοικος (períoikos, “neighbour”), from περι- (peri-, “peri-”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɛɹɪˈiːkəs/, /pɛɹɪˈɔɪkəs/

perioecus (plural perioeci)

1. (obsolete) Someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section ii, member 3:

     How comes it to pass, that in the same site, in one latitude, to such as are periœci, there should be such difference of soil, complexion, colour, metal, air, etc.

• antoecus
• antipodean
• ecumenic