triennium

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English

Etymology

From Latin triennium, from triennis (“3-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).

Pronunciation

Noun

triennium (plural trienniums or triennia)

  1. A period of three years.
    Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, novennium, decennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium

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Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

triennium n (genitive trienniī or triennī); second declension

  1. triennium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative triennium triennia
genitive trienniī
triennī1 		trienniōrum
dative trienniō trienniīs
accusative triennium triennia
ablative trienniō trienniīs
vocative triennium triennia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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References

  • “triennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “triennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • triennium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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