heliacal

1. 1.

   pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun

   “the heliacal rising of the Dog Star”

   “the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star)”

   Synonymsheliac

Questions about heliacal

What does heliacal mean?

heliacal means "pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun".

How many syllables are in heliacal?

heliacal has 4 syllables: he-li-a-cal. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for heliacal?

Close synonyms include heliac. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heliacal a common word?

heliacal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.