it comes from latin and it means "the year of the lord" thats why it is used to denote the timeline after jesus's birth...year ZERO if u want....everything before that is B.C (before christ)
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∙ 14y agoThe letters AD stand for Anno Domini. The phrase Anno Domini is actually medieval Latin which means 'the year of Our Lord'.
"Year of our Lord".
Anno Domini and Before Christ
BC - Before Christ AD - Anno Domini
Anno Domini is from medieval Latin and means "In the year of our Lord". It is used to denote years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
It's Latin for "in the year [anno] of the Lord [Domini]".
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No, Anno Domini is Latin. It means "in the Year of the Lord."
Latin for “in the year of our lord,” is anno domini"A.D."
The term Anno Domini is Medieval Latin, translated as In the year of (the/Our) Lord.
Anno Domini (AD) which means in the year of the Lord.
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anno domini is pronounced as an-imo-domoni the word is Latin and stands for the term AD most people consider this to say after death but the meaning was named after a philosopher.
What used to be called Anno Domini is nowadays called the Common Era, in order to avoid the specifically Christian association of Anno Domini. They are the same thing.
AD stands for the Latin Anno Domini or 'in the year of our lord'.
Anno Domini ("year of the lord") is abbreviated with AD. It is the same AD you will see in years such as 2014 AD, which means the 2014th year after Jesus was born. The opposite of this is BC, which is an abbreviation for "Before Christ"