| 单词 | emergent year |
| 释义 | > as lemmasemergent year emergent year n. transl. of medieval Latin annus emergens. Obsolete.The term was used by Gervase of Tilbury, who says that the Jews have three modes of reckoning their years: viz., annum usualem, which they employ in conformity with the practice of their Christian neighbours, beginning on 1 Jan.; annum legitimum, which begins in April; and annum emergentem, which is reckoned from their departure from Egypt. In this passage emergens has its usual medieval Latin sense ‘arising out of a particular circumstance’ (cf. A. 4, A. 5); but after the publication of Gervase in Leibniz Script. Rer. Brunsv. (1707–10) the phrase annus emergens was taken to mean ‘the initial year of an era’ (a misconception to which the sentence, apart from its context, easily lends itself). Hence the modern equivalents of the Latin phrase, with this incorrect explanation, found their way into 18th cent. dictionaries of French, Spanish, and English; but we have failed to discover any evidence that they actually came into use in those languages. A passage from the same ultimate source as that in Gervase occurs in Higden (see quot. c1450).In modern dictionaries.extracted from emergentadj.n.< as lemmas |
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