Pharmouthi

English

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φαρμουθί derived from Egyptian pꜣ-n-rnn-wtt (the one of Rennutet).

Origin

Egyptian

pꜣ-n-rnn-wtt

Gloss

the one of Rennutet

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