Iron Age

See also: iron age

English

Etymology

From iron + age, in the mythological sense a calque of Latin saecula ferrea, aetas ferrea; in the archaeological sense a calque of Danish jernalder.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌɪən eɪdʒ/

Proper noun

Iron Age

1. (mythology) The most recent and debased of the four or five classical Ages of Man; hence, any period characterised by wicked behaviour. [from 16th c.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 1, member 3:

     He that shall examine this iron age wherein we live, where love is cold […] may well ask where is charity?

2. An age characterised by the use of iron. [from 16th c.]
3. (archaeology) A level of culture in which Man used iron and the technology of ironworking. (Estimated to have begun in Europe about 1100 BCE) [from 19th c.]

Coordinate terms

• (archaeology): Stone Age, Bronze Age
• (mythology): Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age, Heroic Age

See also

• Iron Age on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ages of Man on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• Iron Age on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ages of Man on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

archaeology

• Arabic: عَصْر اَلْحَدِيد‎ m (ʿaṣr al-ḥadīd)
• Armenian: երկաթի դար (hy) (erkatʿi dar)
• Asturian: Edá del Fierro m
• Catalan: edat del ferro f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐵器時代, 铁器时代 (tiěqì shídài)

• Czech: doba železná (cs) f
• Danish: jernalder c
• Dutch: ijzertijd (nl) m
• Erzya: кшнибинге (kšnibinge)
• Estonian: rauaaeg (et)
• Finnish: rautakausi (fi)
• French: âge du fer (fr) m
• Galician: idade do ferro f
• German: Eisenzeit (de) f
• Greek: Εποχή του Σιδήρου f (Epochí tou Sidírou)
• Hindi: लौह युग m (lauh yug)
• Hungarian: vaskor (hu)
• Japanese: 鉄器時代 (てっきじだい, tekki-jidai)
• Kazakh: темір дәуірі (temir däwiri)

• Korean: 철기시대(鐵器時代) (ko) (cheolgisidae)
• Latvian: dzelzs laikmets m
• Limburgish: iezertied m
• Macedonian: железно време n (železno vreme)
• Malay: Zaman Besi
• Norman: Âge dé Fé m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jernalder m

  Nynorsk: jarnalder m, jernalder m

• Polish: epoka żelaza (pl) f
• Portuguese: idade do ferro f, Idade do Ferro f
• Romanian: Epoca Fierului f
• Russian: желе́зный век m (želéznyj vek)
• Southern Altai: темир чак (temir čak)
• Spanish: Edad del Hierro f
• Swedish: järnålder (sv) c
• Vietnamese: thời đại đồ sắt
• Zazaki: Dorê asıni

mythology

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐵器時代, 铁器时代 (tiěqì shídài)

• Danish: jernalder c
• Dutch: ijzertijd (nl) m
• Estonian: rauaaeg (et)
• Finnish: rautakausi (fi)
• French: âge du fer (fr) m
• Korean: 철(鐵)의 시대(時代) (cheor-ui sidae)
• Limburgish: iezertied m

• Macedonian: железно време n (železno vreme)
• Malay: Zaman Besi
• Norman: Âge dé Fé m
• Norwegian: jernalder m
• Polish: epoka żelaza (pl) f
• Portuguese: idade do ferro f, Idade do Ferro f
• Russian: желе́зный век m (želéznyj vek)
• Zazaki: Demê asıni

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ferepoko
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} idade de Ferro
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} תקופת הברזל‎
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} età del ferro
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 鉄器時代 (tekki-jidai)
• Kabuverdianu:

  Badiu: Idadi du Ferru m

  Fogo: Idade du Ferro m

  São Vicente: Idad' d' Ferr' m

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} etas ferrum

• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} geležies amžius
• Low German: ^{(please verify)} Iesentiet
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} Żmien il-Ħadid
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гвоздено доба

  Roman: gvozdeno doba

• Sicilian: ^{(please verify)} Etati dû Ferru
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} Železna doba
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} Edad de Hierro m
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} Yr Oes Haearn

Anagrams

• Noriega, Rogaine, orangie, rogaine