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search "A.C.N." redirects here. For other uses, see ACN. Ante Christum Natum (Latin for Before Christ (was) Born), usually abbreviated to A.C.N., a.C.n., a.Ch.n. or ACN, denotes the years before the birth of Jesus Chr ist.[1] It is the modern Latin equivalent to the English term "BC" ("Before Chri st") and "BCE" ("Before Common Era"). The phrase Ante Christum Natum is also see n as the shorter Ante Christum (Latin for "Before Christ"), again usually abbrev iated to A.C. or AC.[2][3][4] A related term, p.Ch.n or post Christum natum comp lements a.Ch.n and is equivalent to "AD".[5] These terms are chiefly found in modern Latin texts. English speakers are ly to recognize them. Neither the Chicago Manual of Style (14th ed.), the an Heritage Dictionary (3rd ed.), nor P. Kenneth Seidelmann's Explanatory ment to the Astronomical Almanac (1992, University Science Books) mention N, or Ante Christum Natum. unlike Americ Supple AC, AC

These terms were not used in medieval and Renaissance Latin texts. Bede the Vene rable, who was the first writer to identify a year as before Christ, used the La tin ante incarnationis dominicae tempus (before the time of the Incarnation of t he Lord) in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (I.2) in 731. Most compar able early Latin terms referred to Christ's Incarnation or conception, not his b irth nine months later. See also List of ecclesiastical abbreviations References ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ British Library manuscripts catalogue General Chronology in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (1983) Example from LogosLibrary.eu.

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