Thoth
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /θəʊθ/
Proper noun
  1. The ancient Egyptian moon god of wisdom, learning, and magic, usually depicted as an ibis or baboon.
  2. The first month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the first month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Thoth has been in roughly September.
    • 1762, John Kennedy, A Complete System of Astronomical Chronology Unfolding the Scriptures:
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    • 1842, Frederick Portal, “Correspondence—Swedenborg and Champollion” in The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, Etc, Vol. 21:
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    • 1989, Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. 56:
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Translations
  • French: Thot
  • German: Thot
  • Portuguese: Tot
  • Russian: Тот
  • Spanish: Tot



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