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Novus Ordo Seclorum (Latin: New Order of the Ages) - is on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States, first designed in 1782, and from 1935 on the reverse of the American one-dollar bill. The phrase is also on the Yale School of Management coat of arms, a business school at Yale University. Often incorrectly translated into "New Order of the World" but then the Latin version would sound Novus Ordo Mundi. Origin and meaning Reproduction of the Great Seal of the United States

The phrase was taken from the fourth Virgilian eclogue, which contains the following passage (verses 4-7):

Throughout the history of Latin poetry and prose, saecloth forms, saeclorum, etc., were alternatives to more common forms of saecula, saeculorum, etc., because saeculars, saeculorum etc. can not be used in the hexametric verse. The word saeclorum (saeculorum) does not mean "secularism", but it is a form of saeculum in the plural complement, meaning in this context: generation, centuries, or centuries. Therefore, "Novus Ordo Seclorum" can be translated as "New Order of the Ages". This slogan was proposed by Charles Thomson, a Latin expert who was involved in the design of the Great Seal of the United States, in the sense of "the beginning of a new American era" after the Declaration of Independence.

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