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==Etymology== | ==Etymology== | ||
The modern terms ''Ecumene'' in [[Lunar English]] and ''Ecúmeno'' in [[Standard Apollonian]] is derived from the {{W|Ancient Greek language|Ancient Greek}} term [[wikt:οἰκουμένη#Ancient Greek|οἰκουμένη]] (''oikouménē''), which literally means "the inhabited world." In Classical European antiquity, the term was first applied to the world as known by the Ancient Greeks, although in the {{W|Roman Empire|Roman}} era it came to reference all of human {{W|civilization}}. In the era preceding {{S2|World War III}}, the term had taken on more a religious usage under the {{W|Roman Catholic Church}}, but its historical uses remained on record. | |||
Modern usage of the term refers exclusively to the contemporary political entity. The term was selected at the [[Conference of Planets and Moons]] in 2642 CEC on {{S2|Apollo}} due to its perceived linguistic neutrality as a term already found in both Lunar English and Standard Apollonian, which had become the dominant languages spoken across the Sol system by the mid-27th century CEC, as well as its political neutrality, not implying any specific form of centralized or domination-based governing structure. Instead, the term ''Ecumene'' was chosen as a reflection of the idealistic nature of the political entity itself: an accumulation of human civilization as it was then known to exist, wholly contained within the Sol system and unified under a common political order. | |||
==Exology== | ==Exology== | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||