tricennalia

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English

A medallion commemorating the tricennalia of Constantine the Great

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Etymology

From Latin trīcennālia, from trīcennium (30-year period) + -ālia (-alia: forming the names of festivals), from trīcennis (30-year) + -ium (forming abstract nouns), from trīciēs (thirty each) + annus (year) + -is (forming compound adjectives). Equivalent to tricennium +‎ -alia.

Noun

tricennalia (plural tricennalia or tricennalias)

  1. (historical) The festival and religious rituals celebrating a Roman emperor's 30th year of rule.
    • 2008, Jona Lendering, “Constantine's City”, in Livius:
      In 336, the city was ready. Constantine the Great could celebrate his Tricennalia, his thirty-year jubilee, in his new capital. One year later, he was baptised and died.
    • 2012, Gary Forsythe, "Magna Mater and the Taurobolium", Time in Roman Religion, p. 111:
      As a chronological list of Roman emperors makes clear, several rulers reign long enough to enjoy their decennalia, but relatively few were fortunate enough to celebrate their vicennalia, their twentieth imperial anniversary; and from the second century onwards Constantine alone ruled long enough to celebrate a tricennalia.

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Latin

Etymology

From trīcennium (30-year period) +‎ -ālia (-alia: forming the names of festivals), from trīcennis (30-year) + -ium (-ium: forming abstract nouns), from trīciēs + annus (year) + -is (forming compound adjectives).

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Noun

trīcennālia n pl (genitive trīcennālium or trīcennāliōrum); third declension

  1. (historical) tricennalia, the festival and religious rituals celebrating a Roman emperor's 30th year of rule.
    tricennalia imperatorum
    30th anniversary of the emperors

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.

plural
nominative trīcennālia
genitive trīcennālium
trīcennāliōrum
dative trīcennālibus
accusative trīcennālia
ablative trīcennālibus
vocative trīcennālia

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  • English: tricennalia, tricennial
  • Italian: tricennale