magnus annus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the Latin magnus annus (literally “great year”).
Noun[edit]
magnus annus
- A cycle of years that ends in a final death, conflagration, apocalypse, or the like, and the cycle begins again with a rebirth.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 161:
- The sign of Gemini does not seem to have exerted a beneficent influence on the growth of human culture, but as the Magnus Annus of Taurus came round, things seem to have grown more stable and solid.