bissextile

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bissextile englanniksi

  1. Having an intercalary day, ''particularly'' the quadrennial day of the Julian and Gregorian calendars traditionally placed as a "second sixth" day before March 1st.

  2. 1878, S. B. Woolhouse|W.S.B. Woolhouse & al., "Britannica, Ninth Edition/Calendar|Calendar" in the :s:Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 9th ed., Britannica, Ninth Edition/Volume IV|Vol. IV, p. 666–7:

  3. The additional day which occurred every fourth year the Julian Reform|Julian Reform was given to February, as being the shortest month, and was inserted in the calendar between the 24th and 25th day. February having then twenty-nine days, the 25th was the 6th of the calends of March, ''sexto calendas''; the preceding, which was the additional or intercalary day, was called ''bis-sexto calendas'',—hence the term ''bissextile'', which is still employed to distinguish the year of 366 days. The English denomination of ''leap-year'' would have been more appropriate if that year had differed from common years in ''defect'', and contained only 364 days. In the ecclesiastical calendar the intercalary day is still placed between the 24th and 25th of February; in the civil calendar it is the 29th.
  4. (syn of): a year with an intercalary day.

  5. (feminine singular of)