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Latin
Etymology
From quīnquennis (“5-year”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”), from quīnque (“five”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjs”). Equivalent to quīnque + annālis (“of or related to a year”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
quīnquennālis (neuter quīnquennāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- quinquennial, of or related to a 5-year period
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
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References
- “quinquennalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quinquennalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quinquennalis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- quinquennalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “quinquennalis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin