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3001 Etymology dictionary, p. grave (n.).3
… Middle Ages to 17c., they were temporary, crudely marked repositories from which the bones were removed to ossuaries after some years and the grave used for …
3002 Etymology dictionary, p. guillotine (n.).2
… used the next year. Similar devices on similar principles had been used in the Middle Ages. The verb is attested by 1794. Related: Guillotined; guillotining …
3003 Etymology dictionary, p. hog (n.).2
… a year old), also used by stockmen for "young sheep before the first shearing" (early 14c.) and for "horse older than one year," suggesting the original sense had to …
3004 Etymology dictionary, p. indiction (n.).2
… fifteen years," a chronological unit of the Roman calendar that continued in use through the Middle Ages, from Latin indictionem (nominative indictio ), literally …
3005 Etymology dictionary, p. lethal (adj.).2
… ," on the notion of death as "a letting go." If so, related to Old Church Slavonic leto "summer, year" (from notion of "going"), Russian leto "summer," (pl.) "age, years;" Russian let …
3006 Etymology dictionary, p. mesolithic (adj.).2
… to the middle Stone Age (in Europe, roughly 15,000 to 5,000 years before the present, between the paleolithic and the neolithic ); see meso- "middle" + lithic "consisting …
3007 Etymology dictionary, p. migration (n.).3
… in the beds of rivers, while the naturalist Morton (1703) stated that they migrated to the moon. As late as 1837 the "Kendal Mercury" "detailed the circumstance …
3008 Etymology dictionary, p. millennial (adj.).2
… in the mid-1980s and thus coming of age around the year 2000.
3009 Etymology dictionary, p. nonagenarian (n.).2
… 90 years old; person between 90 and 100 years old;" 1776, coined in English with -an + Latin nonagenarius "containing ninety" (in Late Latin "someone 90 years old"), from …
3010 Etymology dictionary, p. old (adj.).3
… for aged persons as opposed to old things. Latin senex was used of aged living things, mostly persons, while vetus (literally "having many years") was used of inanimate …
3011 Etymology dictionary, p. old (adj.).6
Old age "period of life of advanced years" is from early 14c. Old Testament is attested from mid-14c. (in late Old English it was old law ). Old lady "wife, mother" is attested …
3012 Etymology dictionary, p. plesiosaurus (n.).2
… in the scientific age and was so called for being more like a modern lizard than the ichthyosaur fossils that had been found a few years earlier in the same …
3013 Etymology dictionary, p. pubes (n.).2
… hair, the pubescence of the genitals; the groin," from Latin pubes "pubescent, arrived at the age of puberty, of ripe years, grown up," also, as a noun, "a sign of puberty …
3014 Etymology dictionary, p. quaternary (adj.).3
… only the age of man (now reckoned as the last 2.6 million years), and the other epochs are reckoned in the tens of millions of years, not all accepted it. Compare …
3015 Etymology dictionary, p. secular (adj.).4
… an "age" (120 years). Ecclesiastical writers in Latin used it as those in Greek did aiōn "of this world" (see cosmos ). It is the source of French siècle "century." The meaning …
3016 Etymology dictionary, p. *sen-.4
… - "old age, lapse of time;" Armenian hin "old;" Greek enos "old, of last year;" Latin senilis "of old age," senex "old, old man;" Lithuanian senas "old," senis "an old man;" Gothic sineigs …
3017 Etymology dictionary, p. senior (n.).2
… ; fourth-year student" is by 1888, from an earlier general sense of "advanced student" (1610s). The meaning "aged person, one of the older inhabitants" is by 1889.
3018 Etymology dictionary, p. septuagenarian (adj.).2
"of age 70, seventy-year-old, between 70 and 80 years old," 1793, from Latin septuagenarius "containing seventy," from septuageni "seventy each," related to septuaginta …
3019 Etymology dictionary, p. sexagenarian (n.).2
… sixty years old or between sixty and seventy years old," from Latin sexagenarius "containing sixty," from sexagenarius, from sexageni "sixty each, sixty at a …
3020 Etymology dictionary, p. summer (n.1).3
The meaning "age in years" (counted by summers) is by c. 1300. As an adjective from c. 1300, "of or pertaining to summer." Figuratively, "lasting only as long as pleasure or prosperity does," by 1590s.