English
magnus annus
Magnus annus comes from Latin magnus annus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmagnus annusliterally ‘great year’
- Englishearliest quotation 1981same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmagnus annusliterally ‘great year’
- Englishearliest quotation 1981same form
Earliest quotation: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology: “The sign of Gemini does not seem to have…”
Every English word from Latin magnus annus
Today it means
noun A cycle of years that ends in a final death, conflagration, apocalypse, or the like, and the cycle begins again with a rebirth.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin magnus annus / magnus annus