hexameron

English

Alternative forms

• Hexameron
• hexæmeron, hexaëmeron, hexaemeron
• hexahemeron

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἑξαήμερον (hexaḗmeron, “six-day”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɛkˈsæ.mə.rɔn/, /hɛkˈsæ.mə.rən/

Noun

hexameron (plural hexamerons)

1. (theology) The six days in which God created the world according to the biblical creation story.
   • 1905, Alfred Biese, The Development of the Feeling for Nature In the Middle Ages and Modern Times‎^[1], page 34:

     He drew melancholy comparisons from Nature: men were compared to wandering clouds that dissolve into nothing, to wavering shadows, and shipwrecked beings, etc. His homilies on the Hexameron, too, shew thought of Nature.

2. (theology) The narrative in the Book of Genesis describing the events of the hexameron.
3. (literature) A treatise or sermon concerning the biblical creation story.

Hypernyms

• cosmogony

Related terms

• hexameral
• Decameron