Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sossos

/ˈsɒsəs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sos-sos
IPA: /ˈsɒsəs/

6

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

2

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A quantity of 60, such as a period of 60 years.

noun

One tenth of a neros and one sixtieth of a saros – about 110 days.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"February 1984, Jöran Friberg, "Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records." Scientific American, volume 250, number 2, page 110. There in about 340 B.C. the founder of a school of astrology, a Babylonian named Berossos, wrote a history of his homeland. In it he told his Greek readers that the numbers sossos (60), neros (600) and saros (3,600) occupied a special place in Babylonian arithmetic and astronomy."
"Berossos used in his accounts saroi, neroi, and sossoi. A saros is a unit of time that consists of 3,600 years, a neros of 600 years, and a sossos of 60 years"

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σῶσσος (sôssos), from Akkadian 𒋗𒅆 (šūši, “a unit of sixty”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: σῶσσος, šūši

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

sossoi (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

saros neros

Questions

How do you pronounce sossos?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɒsəs/.
What does sossos mean?: A quantity of 60, such as a period of 60 years.
Where does sossos come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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