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Vulgar Era

Vulgar Era proper noun: synonym of Common Era.

Proper noun

the Vulgar Era

  1. 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, title
    • 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...
    Synonyms:
    Common Era

Synonyms of Vulgar Era

Origin of Vulgar 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).

Questions about Vulgar Era

What does Vulgar Era mean?
Vulgar Era means synonym of Common Era.
What part of speech is Vulgar Era?
Vulgar Era is a proper noun.

Words near Vulgar Era in the dictionary

  1. Vulcans
  2. Vulcanus
  3. vulg
  4. vulg.
  5. vulgar
  6. Vulgar Era
  7. vulgar fraction
  8. vulgar fractions
  9. Vulgar Latin
  10. vulgar Marxism
  11. vulgarer

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