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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 sothic
 (a.)天狼星的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 So·thi·ac Soth·ic a. Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular.
 Sothiac year, or Sothic year Chronol., the Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours, as distinguished from the Egyptian vague year, which contained 365 days.  The Sothic period consists of 1,460 Sothic years, being equal to 1,461 vague years.  One of these periods ended in July, a. d. 139.