bissextile

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Every year that can be divided by four without a remainder is bissextile or leap year, with the exception that one leap year is cut off in the century.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to a leap year.
  2. adjective Of or relating to the extra day falling in a leap year.
  3. noun A leap year.

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  1. Late Latin bissextīlis, containing an intercalary day, from bisextus (diēs), bis sextus (diēs) and Latin bisextum, intercalary day : bis, twice; see bis + sextus, sixth (because the sixth day before the Calends of March on February 24 occurred twice every leap year); see sext.

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  1. from Middle Latin bissextilis, bisextilis (sc. annus, year), leap-year, from Latin bisextus, bissextus: see bissext.
 

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/bɪˈsɛkstɪl/
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