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Lustrum
May 14, 2011 8:51 am
(@grantbarrett)
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A decade is ten years. A century is a hundred. But what do you call a period of five years? It's a lustrum, borrowed whole from Latin. So you might say a decade is two lustra. This is part of a complete episode.
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