Re: You have won us.

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Posted ByRich on June 11, 2001 at 13:07:27:

In Reply to: You have won us. posted bycustardchuk on June 10, 2001 at 09:45:42:

: ( I was thinking that sabbatical may be derived from Sabbath in that every day would be like Sunday).

You were somewhat correct: the one is not derived from the other, but both have the Greek "sabbaton" as a common ancestor. The word "sabbatical," as a noun, first appeared in 1645, and one definition is that it refers to a "sabbatical year," a term which first appeared in 1599. A sabbatical year is a year of rest for the land observed every seventh year in ancient Judea; the term later came to have the broader definition of simply a leave of absence, often with pay.

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