Meanings
- Synonym of Common Era.
Ephemerides of the Celestiall Motions, for the Yeers of the Vulgar Era 1633...
1635, Johann Kepler, Adriaan Vlacq, Ephemerides of the Celestiall Motions, for the Yeers of the Vulgar Era 1633..., retrieved 18 Dec 2007, title1 more example
This happened in the seventh year after the building of Rome, and in the second year of the eighth Olympiad, which was the seven hundred forty-seventh year before Christ, i. e. before the beginning of the vulgar æra, by which we now compute the years from his incarnation.
1716, Humphrey Prideaux, D.D., The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations, volume 1, Edinburgh: D. Schaw & Co., translation of from Oxford University Press, published 1799, retrieved 14 Dec 2007, digitized 2007-03-26, page 1Synonyms: Common Era
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Common Era.
Origin
- Latinaerae vulgāris
- EnglishVulgar Era
Calque of Latin aerae vulgāris (from vulgāris, from vulgus (“the common people, i.e. those who are not royalty”)), which originates at least as early as 1615, long before vulgar came to mean “crudely indecent”. Earliest English usage is from 1635 (see quotation).
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