antoeci

See also: antœci

English

WOTD – 10 February 2011

Alternative forms

• antoikoi
• antœci (obsolete)

Etymology

From the Latin antoecī, from the Ancient Greek ἄντοικοι (ántoikoi, “dwellers opposite”), from ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) οἶκος (oîkos, “dwelling”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ăntēʹsī, IPA^(key): /ænˈtiːsaɪ/

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Noun

antoeci pl (plural only)

1. The inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero.
   • 1622, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie in Four Bookes, Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, published 1674, introduction, page 20, column 1:

     Antœci are such as dwell under the same Meridian and the same Latitude or Parallel equally distant from the Æquator; the one northward, the other Southward; the days in both places being of a length; but the Summer of the one being the others winter.

   • 1684, Thomas Burnet, The Theory of the Earth‎^[1], book 2, published 1697, page 174:

     Antichthones…comprehend both the Antipodes and Antœci, or all beyond the Line[.]

   • 1796, Charles Hutton, A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, volume 1, page 121, column 1:

     Antœci…have their noon, or midnight, or any other hour at the same time; but their seasons are contrary, being spring to the one, when it is autumn with the other.

Derived terms

• antoecian

Translations

the inhabitants of the place at the opposite degree of latitude

• Portuguese: antecos m pl

See also

• antipodeans
• ecumene
• perioeci

References

• “‖antœci, n. pl.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

Anagrams

• Aniceto, acinote, acetoin, anoetic, aconite, Atencio, ace into

Latin

Noun

antoecī

1. inflection of antoecus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular