epagomena

Meaning

Noun

• Time (usually five days) appended to a calendar year, outside of any regular month, to make the year 365 days long (in e.g. the ancient Egyptian calendar and in the French Republican calendar).

Origin

• From the neuter plural of Ancient Greek ἐπαγόμενος ("added on"), used by Greek writers of antiquity to describe the five epagomenal days of the calendar of the Egyptians.