| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 2:19 |
Speaking of the Hellatin words . . . In many scholarly works on chronometry etc I've run across the term "nycthemeron" for the 24-hour period of the Earth's rotation (to avoid the ambiguity inherent in the term "day"). It looks awfully Greek to me. My questions: 1. is it well-formed? 2. what's the etymology? 3. what's the plural? Thanks.
| R A Brown <ray@...> |