bissextile
Meaning of bissextile
adjective
Having an intercalary day, particularly the quadrennial leap day of the Julian and Gregorian calendars traditionally placed as a "second sixth" day before March 1st.
noun- A year in the Julian or Gregorian calendars with an intercalary day added to February, used to adjust for the extra hours of the solar year; a 366-day year.
- (inexact) Any other year featuring intercalation, such as a year in a lunisolar calendar with 13 months instead of 12, used to maintain its alignment with the seasons of the solar year.
Information about bissextile
- The plural form of bissextile is: bissextiles.
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Hyphenation of bissextile
bis-sex-tile
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- bissextile is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
bissextile synonyms
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