Italian word of the day: Anno bisestile (leap year)

The Italian word is leap year yes leap yearif you are already familiar with the term, it should be easy to remember leap yearsynonyms leap year.

this word leap year Derived from the Latin term “leap year” or”leap year,” meaning “bissextus year,” itself composed of “bis” (for “twice”) and “sextus” (for “sixth”).

A leap year adds an extra day to the calendar year to keep it in sync with the astronomical or seasonal year. This ensures that a calendar with a fixed number of days per year does not change over time compared to events such as seasons.

inside Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar), a leap year has 366 days and occurs every four years, except for years that are divisible by 100 but not divisible by 400.Extra day is added to February (February)changing it from 28 days to 29 days.

Heather Broster is a graduate with honors in linguistics from the University of Western Ontario. She is an aspiring polyglot, fluent in English and Italian, as well as varying degrees of fluency in Japanese, Welsh and French. Originally from Toronto, Heather has lived in several countries, notably Italy for six years. Her main research areas are language acquisition, education and bilingual teaching.