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a.C and d.C

English translation: BC and AD

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Italian term or phrase:a.C and d.C
English translation:BC and AD
Entered by: Maria Burnett

18:24 Apr 21, 2004
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - History
Italian term or phrase: a.C and d.C
referring to time periods before and after Christ, but which is which and what is the English
Maria Burnett
United States
Local time: 17:29
BC and AD
Explanation:
a.C. = BC is used for years before Christ
d.c.= AD (Anno domini) for years measured after Christ (more politically correct to say Common Era, or CE, but I don't know how much that expression is used!)
Hope that helps
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Patrick McKeown
Italy
Local time: 23:29
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Summary of answers provided
4 +8BC and AD
Krisztina Lelik
5 +2BCE and CE
Jane Griffiths (X)
5 +1BC and AD
Patrick McKeown
5BC and AD
James D'Agostino
4BC and AC or CE
Gian


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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +8
BC and AD


Explanation:
before Christ= a.C. and Anno Domini=d.C.

Krisztina Lelik
Greece
Local time: 00:29
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Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian

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agree  hodierne
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agree  Patrick McKeown: you were quicker on the draw!
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agree  Anthony Green
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agree  GAR
38 mins
agree  Domenico Cianci
1 hr
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
BC and AD


Explanation:
a.C. = BC is used for years before Christ
d.c.= AD (Anno domini) for years measured after Christ (more politically correct to say Common Era, or CE, but I don't know how much that expression is used!)
Hope that helps

Patrick McKeown
Italy
Local time: 23:29
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

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agree  Sinan Alobaidi
6206 days
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
BC and AD


Explanation:
AC - Avanti Cristo (Before Christ) DC - Dopo Cristo (After Christ - Anno Domini - AD)

James D'Agostino
Malta
Local time: 23:29
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in MalteseMaltese
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
BCE and CE


Explanation:
BCE = "Before The Common era" and CE = "Common Era" are often preferred these days because they don't refer specifically to Christianity.

When one is discussing a non-Christian culture (e.g. pre-Christian Rome) that seems more appropriate. They are used quite a lot in academic writing, but haven't yet replaced AD (Anno Domini = the Year of Our Lord,which isn't comfortable for non-Christians) and BC (= Before Christ) completely.

Both BCE/CE and BC/AD are in use - the choice is yours. I personally tend to use BCE/CE, particularly in a non-Christian context.

Jane Griffiths (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:29
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

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agree  Mario Marcolin
30 mins
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
BC and AC or CE


Explanation:
BC (Before Christ). BC (Before Christ). ...

AC (After Christ) or CE (Christian Era) and not AD as Muslims often do unthinkingly. ...


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Note added at 31 mins (2004-04-21 18:56:38 GMT)
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http://www.muhammad.net/mnstc/mnstc12.htm

HISTORICALLY
The Holy Prophet Moses preceded Jesus Christ (pbuh) by some 1300 years and Muhammad (pbuh) succeeded to that high office vacated by Jesus some six centuries later.
It was the 12 of Rabi I., in the year of the Elephant, or the 29th of August 570 of the Christian Era1 that Muhammad (peace be on him), was born in the sacred city of Makkah in pagan Arabia. His people the Quraish remembered the year of his birth as the \"Era of the Elephant\", because just two months before the birth of the child Abraha al-Ashram, the Abyssinian viceroy of Yemen had attacked the sacred sanctuary at Makkah at the head of his troops riding a huge African elephant. A terrifying sight never to be erased from their memory and a still more shocking end to the invasion — the miraculous destruction of Abraha and his army as recorded in Sura Fil or the Elephant —
1. Always use A.C. (After Christ) or C.E. (Christian Era) and not A.D. as Muslims often do unthinkingly.1. Always use A.C. (After Christ) or C.E. (Christian Era) and not A.D. as Muslims often do unthinkingly.


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Note added at 33 mins (2004-04-21 18:58:15 GMT)
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Where you see Christian Era1 .... 1 is a note that was added at the end

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Note added at 2 hrs 59 mins (2004-04-21 21:24:21 GMT)
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Ho trovato che d.C. viene anche tradotto come a.C.

http://www.italycyberguide.com/Art/glossary/abcde.htm
a.C.= after Christ

http://www.the-artfile.com/uk/history/middleages/middleages....
The good will go to heaven and the bad will be banished to hell. In the Middle Ages the people were convinced of the fact that this event would take place exactly 1000 years after the birth of Christ. This year divides the Middle Ages in the Early (500 a.C. - 1000 a.C.) and the Late Middle Ages (1000 a.C. - 1500 a.C.).


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Note added at 3 hrs 10 mins (2004-04-21 21:34:53 GMT)
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Alta documentazione con BC e AC

http://www.dokus.com/beer/ancienttimes.htm
After the fall of the Sumerians in 2000 before Christ (BC) the process of beer brewing was improved in Babylon. The Babylonians brewed twenty different beers of which eight were based on pure fermentation.
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The Romans drunk more wine, the beverage for gods while beer was more drunk by what the Romains considered the barbarians. In the first century after Christ (AC) the word cervesia is used with which they make zythum in Egypt, celia and cerea in Spain cervesia and different other names in Gaul and other provinces.


Gian
Italy
Local time: 23:29
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Krisztina Lelik: I don`t see the point. What about Muslims?
10 mins
neutral  Jane Griffiths (X): CE generally stands for common era, rather than Christian era. See what I've said in my response about AD feeling uncomfortable to many non-Christians.
2 hrs
neutral  Hassan Akhtar: Those who are confused about what's in it about Muslims. Muslims don't believe that Jesus may peace be upon him is dead and AD stands for after death that's why they use AC instead of AD.
6595 days
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