different between year vs lustrum

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English yeer, yere, from Old English ??ar (“year”), from Proto-West Germanic *j?r, from Proto-Germanic *j?r? (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh?r? (“year, spring”).

Alternative forms

• yeah (eye dialect)
• yeare, yeer, yeere, yere (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /j??/
• (General American) enPR: yîr, IPA^(key): /j??/
• (Wales, other regions) IPA^(key): /j??/
• Hyphenation: year
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Rhymes: -??(r) (regional)

Noun

year (plural years)

1. A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).

2. (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.

3. A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.

4. A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.

5. (sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
6. A level or grade in school or college.

7. The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).

Synonyms

• (one revolution of the Sun by the Earth): sun, twelvemonth
• (time to make one revolution by any body): anomalistic year, Gaussian year, sidereal year, tropical year
• (period between set dates): calendar year, civil year, legal year
• (specific uses): fiscal year, liturgical year, school year

Hypernyms

• decade (10 years), century (100 years), millennium (1000 years)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• calendar
• (Gregorian calendar months) Gregorian calendar month; January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December ^{(Category: en:Gregorian calendar months)}
• (Hebrew calendar months) Hebrew calendar month; Tishrei, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul ^{(Category: en:Hebrew calendar months)}
• (Islamic calendar months) Islamic calendar month; Muharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Sha'aban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu al-Qida, Dhu al-Hijjah ^{(Category: en:Islamic months)}

References

• year on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

year

1. Pronunciation spelling of here.
2. Pronunciation spelling of hear.

Anagrams

• Arey, Ayer, Ayre, Raye, Reay, Yare, aery, ayre, eyra, y'are, yare

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English yeer, yere, from Old English ??r, ??ar (“year”), from Proto-West Germanic *j?r, from Proto-Germanic *j?r? (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *y?ro-, *yeh?ro- (“year, spring”), *yeh?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [(j)i?r]

Noun

year (plural year)

1. year

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?strum (“purificatory sacrifice performed every five years by the censor; lustration; period of five years”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?l?st??m/
• Hyphenation: lus?trum

Noun

lustrum (plural lustra or lustrums)

1. (Ancient Rome, religion, historical) A ceremonial purification of all the people, performed every five years after the taking of the census; a lustration. [from late 16th c.]
2. (by extension, literary) A period of five years.

   Synonyms: luster, lustre, quinquennium

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Translations

Notes

Further reading

• lustrum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lustrum (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology 1

Alteration from earlier *dustrum, from Ancient Greek *??????? (*dústron) from ??? (dú?, “to plunge”).

Noun

lustrum n (genitive lustr?); second declension

1. bog, morass, place where boars and swine wallow
2. (usually in the plural) den or lair of wild beasts; wood, forest
3. (usually in the plural) (a place of) debauchery

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Synonyms

• volutabrum

Etymology 2

From Old Latin *loustrom,

• from Proto-Indo-European *lewkstrom, from *lewk- (“to make bright”) (whence l?ce?),
• or from Proto-Indo-European *lewh?strom, from *lewh?- (“to wash”) (whence lav?),
• or from Proto-Indo-European *lewHstrom, from *lewH- (“to expiate”) (whence lu?).

Noun

l?strum n (genitive l?str?); second declension

2. a purificatory sacrifice or lustration performed every five years by the censor
   1. a period of five years

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• l?str?lis
• l?str?

Descendants

• Catalan: lustre, llustre
• English: lustrum
• Italian: lustro
• Spanish: lustro
• Portuguese: lustro

References

• lustrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lustrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lustrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lustrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• lustrum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lustrum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag