Pronounced: po-LO-nee-uhn, adj
Notes: I should have guessed both of the meanings, but I didn’t get either one
Yesterday’s phrase
The phrase annus mirabilis means “a remarkable or notable year”
First usage
Our phrase came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
I recognized annus as meaning “year”, but I wasn’t quite sure of the meaning of mirabilis – it looks like “miraculous”, but it actually means “wonderful”. Our phrase came from New Latin. One of the earliest uses of our phrase was by the British poet John Dryden, who used for phrase for the year 1666. Do you have an annus mirabilis – if you have to pick one, which year would you pick?
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