anno mundi
Adjective
Meaning
anno mundi (not comparable)
(of a year) Counted from the creation of the world according to the Hebrew (Jewish) calendar.
Examples
Anno Mundi further The Jewish calendar's reference point is traditionally held to be about one year before the Creation of the world.
D. or AD), the words or abbreviation for Anno Mundi (A.
It was believed that, based on the Anno Mundi calendar, Jesus was born in the year 5500 (or 5500 years after the world was created) with the year 6000 of the Anno Mundi calendar marking the end of the world.
From the 11th century, anno mundi dating became dominant throughout most of the world's Jewish communities."
From the eleventh century, anno mundi dating became dominant throughout most of the world's Jewish communities.
Over those centuries, it was replaced by that of the anno mundi era of the Seder Olam.