PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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διάστασις ‘interval’

Greek. – Grammar: noun.

References: Pontano: p. 327
Translated into:
Latin: distantia [Pontano: LXXXIc. 6]
Synonyms:
διάστημα[Alm. Heiberg: I.3, 12:2, I.5, 17:24]
παραύξησις[Alm. Heiberg: II.7, 133:10; I.10, 31:12-13]