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perioecus en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pɛɹɪˈɔɪkəs/ (UK)
• /pɛɹɪˈiːkəs/ (UK)

Etymology

From Late Latin perioeci, from Ancient Greek περίοικοι (períoikoi), plural of περίοικος (períoikos, “neighbour”), from περι- (peri-, “peri-”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis.
   • How comes it to pass, that in the same site, in one latitude, to such as are periœci, there should be such difference of soil, complexion, colour, metal, air, etc. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section ii, member 3:

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Relateds

ecumenic · antoecus · antipodean