epogdoon en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπόγδοον (epógdoon), from ἐπι- (epi-, “greater [by]”) + ὄγδοον (ógdoon, “an eighth part”).
Meanings
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(no-plural, qualifier:Ancient Greece, rare) A number equal to another plus an eighth thereof; a number 1.125 times another.
Eighteen... bears the epogdoon relation to sixteen, which is broken up by the intervention of seventeen, an odd number.
1936, Frank Cole Babbitt translating Plutarch as "Isis and Osiris" in Moralia, Vol. V, p. 103, n.We cannot say that 256 is the epogdoon of 243, for in the number 256 is not contained the whole of 243 and an eighth thereof, since an eighth of 243 is approximately 30½...
2016, John Magee translating Calcidius as On Plato's Timaeus, p. 201