magnus annus

noun

A cycle of years that ends in a final death, conflagration, apocalypse, or the like, and the cycle begins again with a rebirth.

OriginLatin magnus annus →
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Meanings

noun
  1. A cycle of years that ends in a final death, conflagration, apocalypse, or the like, and the cycle begins again with a rebirth.

    The sign of Gemini does not seem to have exerted a beneficent influence on the growth of human culture, but as the Magnus Annus of Taurus came round, things seem to have grown more stable and solid.

    1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 161

Origin

  1. Latinmagnus annus
  2. Englishmagnus annus

From the Latin magnus annus (literally “great year”).

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