Vulgar Era

短语

词形变化

the Vulgar Era

释义与例句

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    Synonym of Common Era.

词源

Calque of Latin aerae vulgāris (from vulgāris, from vulgus (“the common people, i.e. those who are not royalty”)), which orginates 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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