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prettygoodword) wrote2013-05-06 07:12 am
prettygoodword) wrote2013-05-06 07:12 am
nychthemeron
nychthemeron (nik-THEH-meh-ron) - n., a full day of 24 hours.
A day and a night -- or more strictly, a night and a day, following the classical Greek definition of a 24-hour-day starting at sunset: from Greek, from nychthemeros, lasting a night and a day, from nykt-, combining form of nuks, night + hemera, day.
---L.
A day and a night -- or more strictly, a night and a day, following the classical Greek definition of a 24-hour-day starting at sunset: from Greek, from nychthemeros, lasting a night and a day, from nykt-, combining form of nuks, night + hemera, day.
---L.