Mesore

English

proper-noun
Definitions
  • The twelfth and last month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the fourth and last month of the season of Shemu. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Mesore has been in roughly August.

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μεσορί derived from Egyptian mswt-rꜥ (birth of Ra).

Origin

Egyptian

mswt-rꜥ

Gloss

birth of Ra

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