Question Asked: Where Does The Word Anniversary Come From?
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Jan 12th, 2009 |
The word “anniversary” comes from the Latin anniversarius, from the words for year and to turn, meaning returning yearly.
We’ve been using the word we derived from anniversarius (anniversary) since about 1230AD, starting in England.
There’s very little information about who started using it in the way that we do today or when that happened, available on the internet. (At least the places I’ve looked anyway.)
Until contested, we’ll stick with the above information.
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