leap year
English
noun
Definitions
- A year in the Julian Julian or Gregorian calendars with an intercalary day added to February, used to adjust for the extra hours of the solar year; a 366-day year.
- (inexact) Any other year featuring intercalation, such as a year in a lunisolar calendar with 13 months instead of 12, used to maintain its alignment with the seasons of the solar year.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English lepe yeer compound from English leap (trap snare for fish made from twigs, basket, a basket) + English year.
Origin
English
year
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Leaper English
- New Year English
- bearleap English
- beleap English
- birthyear English
- elope English
- forthleap English
- gigayear English
- half-year English
- kiloyear English
- leap English
- leapable English
- leaper English
- leapest English
- leapeth English
- leapfrog English
- leapful English
- leapling English
- megayear English
- midleap English
- midyear English
- multiyear English
- non-leap year English
- nonleap English
- one-year-old English
- outleap English
- overleap English
- overyear English
- packyear English
- schoolyear English
- toyear English
- upleap English
- year English
- yearbook English
- yearday English
- yeared English
- yearend English
- yearer English
- yearful English
- yeargroup English
- yearhundred English
- yearling English
- yearlong English
- yearly English
- yearsman English
- yearsworth English
- yearthousand English
- yeartide English
- yeartime English
- yearward English
- yesteryear English
- lepe yeer Middle English
- lepen Middle English
- yeer Middle English
- yel Volapük
- yia Tok Pisin
- ier Chuukese
- year
- leap
- elope
- yearer
- yearly
- leaper
- beleap
- yeared
- Leaper
- toyear
- upleap
- midleap
- yearend
- midyear
- leapest
- leapful
- nonleap
- yearday
- leapeth
- yearful
- outleap
- overyear
- yearward
- yearbook
- kiloyear
- packyear
- yearlong
- yeartime
- yearsman
- yearling
- leapling
- megayear
- New Year
- yeartide
- bearleap
- leapable
- leapfrog
- gigayear
- overleap
- multiyear
- yeargroup
- forthleap
- half-year
- birthyear
- schoolyear
- yesteryear
- yearsworth
- yearhundred
- yearthousand
- one-year-old
- non-leap year