dodecad

English

Etymology

From dodeca- +‎ -ad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doʊˈdɛkæd/

Noun

dodecad (plural dodecads)

1. A group or set of twelve.
   • 1903, H. S. Green, Theoretical Astrology, page 63:

     We have also examined some of the relations between the two dodecads of signs and houses.

   • 1987, C.R. Long, Twelve gods of Greece and Rome, BRILL, →ISBN, page 117:

     Plato at any rate assumed that the number twelve befitted the disembodied gods as a perfect number[...] This dodecad of the disembodied gods has been shown by us to proceed from on high triadically, but multiplied by four [...]

   • 2001, John Douglas Turner, Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition, Presses Université Laval, →ISBN, page 207:

     [...] the lowest pair of transcendent principles, all-begetter Savior and all-begettress Sophia, produced a dodecad of twelve equally paired powers, six male and six female.

   • 1966, Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Spurious and Doubtful Works:

     Marcos, according to Irenaeus, also assumed a decad of ten heavenly circles and a dodecad of twelve zodiacal signs. The dodecad represents evil, earthly fate, but the decad is "soul-producing," [...]

Alternative forms

• duodecad

Coordinate terms

• (group) monad, duad/dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, hebdomad/heptad, ogdoad/octad, ennead/nonad, decad/decade, hendecad, dodecad/duodecade, chiliad

References

• “dodecad”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “dodecad”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• coadded