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3041 Etymology dictionary, p. eighties (n.).2
1827 as the years of someone's life between ages 80 and 89; from 1833 as the ninth decade of years in a given century; from 1854 with reference to Fahrenheit temperature. See eighty .
3042 Etymology dictionary, p. epact (n.).2
… a year to show the number of days into the calendar moon on which the solar year begins;" 1580s, "number of days by which the solar year exceeds a lunar one of 12 …
3043 Etymology dictionary, p. ephebic (adj.).2
… for the next two years was garrison duty.
3044 Etymology dictionary, p. era (n.).2
… that year). Other ancient eras included the Chaldean (autumn of 311 B.C.E.), the Era of Actium (31 B.C.E.), of Antioch (49 B.C.E.), of Tyre (126 B.C.E.), the Olympiadic (July …
3045 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 …
3046 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 …
3047 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 …
3048 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 …
3049 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 …
3050 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 …
3051 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 …
3052 Etymology dictionary, p. millennial (adj.).2
… in the mid-1980s and thus coming of age around the year 2000.
3053 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 …
3054 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 …
3055 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 …
3056 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 …
3057 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 …
3058 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 …
3059 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 …
3060 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 …