English

Alternative forms

• periœcus (obsolete)

Noun

perioecus ‎(plural perioeci)

1. (obsolete) Someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.3:

     How comes it to pass, that in the same site, in one latitude, to such as are periœci, there should be such difference of soil, complexion, colour, metal, air, etc.