English
millennium
Millennium comes from Latin mīllennis ‘1000-year’, and goes back to annus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEannus‘year’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEannīs
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmīllennis‘1000-year’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEmīllennium
- Englishearliest quotation 1888millennium
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEannus‘year’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEannīs
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmīllennis‘1000-year’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEmīllennium
- Englishearliest quotation 1888millennium
Earliest quotation: 1888, C. I. Scofield, The Seven Dispensations: “After the purifying judgments which attended the personal return…”
Linked words
through Latin annus ‘year’
annual, ann, annuity, perennial, annum, biennial, biennale, 12 more
Today it means
noun A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin annus / millennium