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- millennium (n.)




- 1630s, from Modern Latin millennium, from Latin mille "thousand" (see million) + annus "year" (see annual); formed on analogy of biennium, triennium, etc. For vowel change, see biennial. First in English in sense of "1,000-year period of Christ's anticipated rule on Earth" (Rev. xx:1-5). Sense of "any 1,000-year period" first recorded 1711. Meaning "the year 2000" attested from 1970.
- terminer (n.)




- "a determining," legal term, from French terminer "to end," in Old French "to decide, rule on," from Latin terminare (see terminus; also see oyer).