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English
Etymology
From Latin vicennium, from vīcennis (“20-year”) + -ium, from vīciēs (“20 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives). Equivalent to vicennial + -ium.
Noun
vicennium (plural vicennia or vicenniums)
- (rare) A period of twenty years.
Derived terms
- annum (1 year), biennium (2), triennium (3), quadrennium (4), quinquennium (5), sexennium (6), septennium (7), octennium (8), novennium (9), decennium (10), tricennium (30), centennium (100), quincentennium (500), millennium (1000), decamillennium (10,000), centimillennium (100,000), millionennium (1,000,000)
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From vīcennis (“20-year”) + -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from vīciēs (“20 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives).
Noun
vīcennium n (genitive vīcenniī or vīcennī); second declension
- vicennium, a 20-year period
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Adjective
vīcennium
- genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of vīcennis
References
- “vicennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vicennium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.