Antœci

Pronunciation

• RP enPR: ăntēʹsÄ«, IPA: /ænˈtiːsaɪ/

Alternative forms

• antoeci, antoikoi

Origin

From the Latin antoecī, from the Ancient Greek ἄντοικοι (antoikoi, "dwellers opposite"), from ἀντί (anti, "opposite") + οἶκος (oikos, "dwelling").

Full definition of antœci

Noun

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, introduction, page 20, column 1 (published in 1674)AntÅ“ci 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, book 2, page 174 (1697 edition)Antichthones…comprehend both the Antipodes and AntÅ“ci, or all beyond the Line.
• 1796, Charles Hutton, A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, volume 1, page 121, column 1AntÅ“ci…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

• antÅ“cian

Related terms

• periÅ“ci

Anagrams

• acetoin, aconite