antēwre

anteewre

antēwre

antēwre means thick or fat, and so is the appropriate word for the fourth phase of a moon, the full moon.

The fifth phase of the moon is antēta, which also means “old” as in useless. The fifth phase goes from a waning gibbous moon to the last quarter.

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