Maurizio Pistone <
scri...@mauriziopistone.it> wrote:
> ricordo ancora quando fu coniato Millennium, parola sconosciuta tanto
> al latino classico quanto a quello medievale
Complimenti, te li porti bene gli anni… ;-)
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«millennium 1630s, from L. mille "thousand" + annus "year" (see annual);
formed on analogy of biennium, triennium, etc. First in English in sense of
"1,000-year period of Christ's anticipated rule on Earth" (Rev. xx.1-5).
Sense of "any 1,000-year period" first recorded 1711.»
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73 is the Chuck Norris of numbers.