What does A.D. mean?

Question

was that the time Jesus was born or was dead already?

Answer 1

Anno Domini (Latin : "In the year of (Our) Lord, abbreviated as AD, defines an epoch based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus of Nazareth.AD is also an abbreviation for "Christian Era".Similarly, Before Christ (from the Ancient Greek "Christos" or "Anointed One", referring to Jesus), abbreviated as BC, is used in the English language to denote years before the start of this epoch. Some prefer the alternatives 'CE' and 'BCE', arguing that they are more neutral terms (see below).

The designation is used to number years in the Christian Era, conventionally used with the Julian and Gregorian calendars. More fully, years may be also specified as Anno Domini Nostri Iesu (Jesu) Christi ("In the Year of Our Lord Jesus Christ"). 'Anno Domini' dating was first calculated in 525 and began to be adopted in Western Europe during the eighth century.

The numbering of years per the Christian era is currently dominant in many places around the world, in both commercial and scientific use. For decades, it has been the global standard, recognized by international institutions such as the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union. This is due to the prevalence of Christianity in the Western world, the great influence of the Western world on science, technology and commerce, as well as the fact that the solar Gregorian calendar has, for a long time, been considered to be astronomically correct.

Traditionally English copies Latin usage by placing the abbreviation before the year number for AD, but after the year number for BC; for example: 64 BC (Or 64 years before the Birth of Christ), but AD 2007. However, the placing of the AD after the year number (as in 2007 AD) is now also common, while, analogous to the use of BC, the abbreviation is also widely used after the number of a century or millennium, as in 4th century AD or 2nd millennium AD, despite the inappropriate literal combination in this case ("in the 4th century in the year of Our Lord").

Answer 2

A. D. stands for Anno Domini, which means "in the year of the lord" in Latin. It's supposed set the birth of Jesus as Year 1 AD. However, there are some problems with the alignment of events in the Nativity story with history; Herod was already dead in 1 AD, and Quirinius, the governor of Syria, didn't take office for a few years after that. So somebody has their numbers wrong.

So Jesus lived from somewhere around 1 AD to somewhere around 30 AD.

Answer 3

A. D. is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase "Anno Domini" which translates into English as "Year of the Lord"

It is supposed to have begun with the birth of Jesus (although there are scholars who feel that the date would be 4-7 years earlier based on astronomical and other historic data)

Most of the time now historians are not using that term...
Now the equivalent term is C.E (Common Era)

Answer 4

I can tell you that many Orthodox jews use the abriviations BCE, Before the Common Era, and CE, Common Era, to because AD and BC are reference to Jesus as a Diety.

Answer 5

After Death!!

It is reffered to the time after jesus was taken to be dead or risen to Heaven !and then dates were written like this with refrence to the jesus !

Answer 6

A.D. is a latin word Shaytan cant remember, but, Shaytan knows it means "In the year of our Lord."

Answer 7

Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord

Answer 8

This is the way I remember it.... BC = Before Christ, AD = After Death. So after Christ died, times transferred to AD. So we are living in the year 2007 AD

Answer 9

Year of our Lord (give or take a year or so), B.C. Before Christ, strange how secular people now want to say C.E. common ear (now) and B.C.E. before common era (before Christ). sort of make one want to puke.

Answer 10

anna domini, I believe... I can't remember the exact translation, but it basically means "In the year of our lord."