Bilennia?

[R Crouse]

Hello,

I'm reading "Allan and the Sundered Veil" in the back of "LoeG Vol 1" and
have come across the word
"bilennia." I have no idea what this word means, except maybe a storm or
loud wind, taken in context.
Dictionary.com doesn't have a listing, the closest was "biennia", which is a
span of 2 years. Other listings found
through Google were fruitless.

Does anyone have a concrete definition of this word? Is it a word that
Moore invented?

Cheers,

- Robert.

(Discovering the world of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and loving it.
Does anyone have any
inpurt regarding Farmer's books about the Wold Newton Universe/Family?)

Thanks.

[WoldNewton]

Well, most Wold Newton Universe "game players" definitely consider LOEG
to take place within the Wold Newton Universe....

Best,

Win
http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/MythsWoldNewton.htm

[F. Smith]

Bilennia -the most obvious suggestion is that it's a typo/variant for "billennia",
as in "billions of years". Context?

Post by R Crouse
Hello,
I'm reading "Allan and the Sundered Veil" in the back of "LoeG Vol 1" and
have come across the word
"bilennia." I have no idea what this word means, except maybe a storm or
loud wind, taken in context.
Dictionary.com doesn't have a listing, the closest was "biennia", which is a
span of 2 years. Other listings found
through Google were fruitless.
Does anyone have a concrete definition of this word? Is it a word
that Moore invented?
Cheers,
- Robert.
(Discovering the world of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and loving it.
Does anyone have any
inpurt regarding Farmer's books about the Wold Newton
Universe/Family?)
Thanks.

[R Crouse]

Thanks, that makes sense since the characters are travelling though time in
the context.
I had just never come across the word and couldn't find a reference.

Just looked this up:

billennia
a new word meaning "billions of years," billennia is appearing informally in
science writing in phrases such as "countless billennia" or "the billennia
of evolutionary time." The word billennium was coined for another purpose,
however; it is a registered trademark of the Billennium® Organizing
Committee and is used, in the words of a committee spokesperson, "to
describe the positive spirit of the millennium, which is an ongoing and
enduring movement."

Thanks again,

- Robert.

Post by F. Smith
Bilennia -the most obvious suggestion is that it's a typo/variant for
"billennia", as in "billions of years". Context?

[Alexander Bardosch]

Post by R Crouse
a new word meaning "billions of years,

Which is kinda stupid considering a millenium is 1000 years.

[R Crouse]

Post by Alexander Bardosch

Post by R Crouse
a new word meaning "billions of years,

Which is kinda stupid considering a millenium is 1000 years.

What makes it stupid? I don't see your connection.

- Robert.

[Alexander Bardosch]

Post by R Crouse
What makes it stupid? I don't see your connection.

Well, "stupid" was too strong a word, I apologize for that.

What I meant was that the word seemed to be given in the context as sort
of a "continuation" of the word "millenium", as in "milion, billion,
trillion etc." That etymology would seem a bit strange to me,
considering a millenium is a thousand years. Billenium meaning 2000
years would be more plausible, as "bi" means two, though still a bit
weird, as the first half of millenium is mille, not "mi".

But I am no expert on etymology, and my latin is extremely rusty,
having learned it at school, where I didn't exactly embrace it. So if
there are mistakes on my part above, I apologize again. I just thought
that billenium meaning "billion of years" was odd.

Again, I shouldn't have said "stupid".

-Alex

[R Crouse]

Post by Alexander Bardosch

Post by R Crouse
What makes it stupid? I don't see your connection.

Well, "stupid" was too strong a word, I apologize for that.
What I meant was that the word seemed to be given in the context as sort
of a "continuation" of the word "millenium", as in "milion, billion,
trillion etc." That etymology would seem a bit strange to me, considering
a millenium is a thousand years. Billenium meaning 2000 years would be
more plausible, as "bi" means two, though still a bit weird, as the first
half of millenium is mille, not "mi".
But I am no expert on etymology, and my latin is extremely rusty, having
learned it at school, where I didn't exactly embrace it. So if there are
mistakes on my part above, I apologize again. I just thought that
billenium meaning "billion of years" was odd.
Again, I shouldn't have said "stupid".
-Alex

-- I agree, it is a strange word to use and I haven't found the etymology of
"billion" yet,
nor have I found any indication of who coined the word "billienia."
Interesting.

- Robert.