era

era
era 1716, earlier aera (1610s), from L.L. aera, era "an era or epoch from which time is reckoned," probably identical with L. aera "counters used for calculation," pl. of aes (gen. aeris) "brass, copper, money" (see ORE (Cf. ore), also Cf. COPPER (Cf. copper)). The Latin word's use in chronology said to have begun in 5c. Spain (where, for some reason unknown to historians, the local era, aera Hispanica, began 38 B.C.E.; some say it was because of a tax levied that year). Like EPOCH (Cf. epoch), in English it originally meant "the starting point of an age;" meaning "system of chronological notation" is c.1640s; that of "historical period" is from 1741, e.g. the U.S. Era of Good Feeling (which was anything but) in ref. to the Monroe Administration (1817-24), attested from 1817.

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