Where does “Jubilee” come from?
Jubilee comes from Hebrew יוֹבֵל (yōbēl), originally denoting a ram's horn used to signal the fiftieth year of release from debts and servitude.
Jubilee (English): a year of rest, observed by the Israelites every...
Definitions
- a year of rest, observed by the Israelites every...
Ancestry of “Jubilee”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | jubilé | jubilee; past participle of jubiler |
| 2 | Latin | iubilaeus | — |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | ἰωβηλαῖος | of a jubilee |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -αῖος | Suffix added to nouns or adjectives, forming adjectives: pertaining to, belonging to ("of") |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -ῐος | belonging to; of”, “belonging to”, “pertaining to |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |