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Bissextile

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bis⋅sex⋅tile

  [bahy-seks-til, -tahyl, bi-]
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–adjective
1. containing or noting the extra day of leap year: The years 1980 and 1984 were both bissextile.
–noun
2. leap year.
Origin:
1585–95; < LL bi(s)sextilis (annus) leap year, equiv. to bissext(us) bissextus + -ilis -ile
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bis·sex·tile   (bī-sěk'stĭl, -stīl', bĭ-)   
adj.  

  1. Of or relating to a leap year.

  2. Of or relating to the extra day falling in a leap year.

n.  A leap year.

[Late Latin bissextīlis, containing an intercalary day, from bisextus (diēs), bis sextus (diēs) and Latin bisextum, intercalary day : bis, twice; see bis + sextus, sixth (because the sixth day before the Calends of March on February 24 occurred twice every leap year); see sext.]
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