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Synonyms for civil year


Grammar : Noun



Définition of civil year

Origin :
  • Old English gear (West Saxon), ger (Anglian) "year," from Proto-Germanic *jæram "year" (cf. Old Saxon, Old High German jar, Old Norse ar, Danish aar, Old Frisian ger, Dutch jaar, German Jahr, Gothic jer "year"), from PIE *yer-o-, from root *yer-/*yor- "year, season" (cf. Avestan yare (nominative singular) "year;" Greek hora "year, season, any part of a year," also "any part of a day, hour;" Old Church Slavonic jaru, Bohemian jaro "spring;" Latin hornus "of this year;" Old Persian dušiyaram "famine," literally "bad year"). Probably originally "that which makes [a complete cycle]," and from verbal root *ei- meaning "to do, make."
  • As in calendar year : noun twelve-month period
Example sentences :
  • The civil year and the day must be regarded as commencing at the same instant.
  • Extract from : « Our Calendar » by George Nichols Packer
  • Again, let us suppose the civil year to consist of 364 days.
  • Extract from : « Our Calendar » by George Nichols Packer
  • On the first day of the seventh month, and of the civil year.
  • Extract from : « The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus » by American Anti-Slavery Society
  • A′dar, the twelfth month of the Hebrew sacred and sixth of the civil year, answering to part of February and part of March.
  • Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 » by Various
  • Pasqualigo says that he left in the previous year, which agrees with Cantino, since the civil year at that time began on March 25.
  • Extract from : « In Northern Mists (Volume 2 of 2) » by Fridtjof Nansen
  • But this was very irregularly done, and the civil year had got to be far away from the solar year.
  • Extract from : « Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) » by Charles Morris
  • The civil year was again divided into eighteen months and five days.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 » by Hubert Howe Bancroft
  • The adjustment of the solar year to correspond with the lunar year and of the two with the civil year dates from this period.
  • Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899 » by Various
  • This was found to be three hundred and sixty-five whole days, and accordingly, this period was adopted for the civil year.
  • Extract from : « Letters on Astronomy » by Denison Olmsted
  • The ecclesiastical year began with the month Abib, or Nisan, in the spring: the civil year with the month Ethanim in the fall.
  • Extract from : « Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers » by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

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