Hilary term Hilary term Hilary term is the second academic term of the Universities of Oxford and Dublin and also Deepdene School near Portslade in East Sussex. It runs from January to March and is so named because the feast day of St Hilary of Poitiers, 14 January, falls during this term. All terms are dated from this day in the following way: The term originated in the legal system. The courts of England and Wales and the Courts of Ireland divide the legal year into four terms: Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas. At the University of Oxford, following the resolution made
Names of Easter the term for Easter is derived from Latin. In the Brittonic languages this has yielded Welsh "Pasg", Cornish and Breton "Pask". In Goidelic languages the word was borrowed before these languages had re-developed the /p/ sound and as a result the initial /p/ was replaced with /k/. This yielded Irish "Cáisc", Gaelic "Càisg" and Manx "Caisht". These terms are normally used with the definite article in Goidelic languages, causing lenition in all cases: "An Cháisc", "A' Chàisg" and "Yn Chaisht". In Dutch, Easter is known as "Pasen" and in the North Germanic languages Easter is known as "påske" (Danish and