Noun: sossos
| Singular | sossos |
| Plural | sossoi |
Sample Sentences
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February 1984, Jöran Friberg, "Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records." Scientific American, volume 250, number 2, page 110.
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There in about 340 B.C. the founder of a school of astrology, a Babylonian named Berossos, wrote a history of his homeland. In it he told his Greek readers that the numbers sossos (60), neros (600) and saros (3,600) occupied a special place in Babylonian arithmetic and astronomy.
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Berossos used in his accounts saroi, neroi, and sossoi. A saros is a unit of time that consists of 3,600 years, a neros of 600 years, and a sossos of 60 years [2001, Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John Moore Wickersham, Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated: Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt., University of Michigan Press:]
Nouns inflected like sossos
saccos,
lampadarios,
sossos,
siglos,
xystos,
paragraphos,
Athinganos,
bothros,
criophoros,
petasos,
hoplomachos,
dipteros,
pseudoperipteros,
promachos,
papyros,
parodos,
kallikantzaros,
prodromos,
monopteros,
sarissophoros, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σῶσσος (sôssos), from Akkadian 𒋗𒅆 (šūši, “a unit of sixty”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
σῶσσος'.