OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27787

leap day

/liːp deɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
día bisiesto • día intercalar
An extra day intercalated into a year, especially the day intercalated into the Julian calendar every fourth year and into the Gregorian calendar every fourth year excepting centuries not divisible by 400, usually reckoned as February 29th.
The lunar cycle among the Chaldeans was called the saros and sara, from סהרא, sahara, the moon. This cycle it is said contained two hundred and twenty-three synodical months, or ei…
This yere leapt, and the leap day was the morrow after the feast Terminalia.
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