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sossos

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈsɒsəs/
  • /ˈsɒsɒs/

1

noun

Meaning 1

A quantity of 60, such as a period of 60 years.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: Babylon

Topics: history, human-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • February 1984, Jöran Friberg, "Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records." Scientific American, volume 250, number 2, page 110. There in about 340 B.C. the founder of a school of astrology, a Babylonian named Berossos, wrote a history of his homeland. In it he told his Greek readers that the numbers sossos (60), neros (600) and saros (3,600) occupied a special place in Babylonian arithmetic and astronomy.

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noun

Meaning 2

One tenth of a neros and one sixtieth of a saros – about 110 days.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, rare

Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

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History

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σῶσσος (sôssos), from Akkadian 𒋗𒅆 (šūši, “a unit of sixty”).