bissextile
tɪl, -taɪl, bɪ- adjective
1.
containing or noting the extra day of leap year: The years 1980 and 1984 were both bissextile.
noun
2.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | (of a month or year) containing the extra day of a leap year |
| —n | |
| 2. | a rare name for leap year |
| [C16: from Late Latin bissextilis annus leap year, from Latin bissextus, from | |
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Bissextile
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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bissextile
Roman leap year, L.L. (annus) bissextilis "leap year," lit. "the twice sixth-day," because the sixth day before the Calends of March was doubled.
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