English Explanatory Dictionary

Vulgar Era

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Synonym of Common Era.

Word forms

Vulgar Era the Vulgar Era

Etymology

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).

Synonyms

Common Era
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