sothic
英 ['səuθik; 'sɔ-]
美
- adj. 天狼星的
英文词源
- Sothic (adj.)
- as in Sothic cycle, a period of 1,460 years, 1828, from French Sothique, from Greek Sothis, an Egyptian name of the star Sirius. The Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius.