ab urbe condita

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ab Urbe conditā (“in the year from the city having been founded”), in reference to Rome.

Adverb

ab urbe condita (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Alternative form of AUC, the era of the Roman historians now usually reckoned from 753 bc.
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