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.
Transcript of “Lustrum”
So, a decade is 10 years, a century is 100 years.
Do you know the word for five years?
Five years.
Five years.
Lustrum.
Lustrum.
L-U-S-T-R-U-M.
I have no idea why it’s called that.
Why wouldn’t we have a word for five years, right?
I think it’s Latin.
Probably.
I think it’s Latin.
With the ending, you’d think, right?
The U-M?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, but you have a decade, but a decade is two lustra? Lustrums?
Well, I think we just do the English plural, right?
Yeah, I guess so.
A lustrum is five years. I did not know that.
That’s very nice. Let’s talk about that in another lustrum.
Okay, another five years.
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