different between millennial vs millennium

English

Etymology

millennium +? -al; surface analysis milli- +? -ennial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l?ni.?l/

Adjective

millennial (not comparable)

1. Referring to the 1,000th anniversary of an event or happening.

2. Occurring every thousand years.
3. Occurring at the end or beginning of a millennium.
4. Of or relating to people born in the last two decades of the 20th century.

5. (Christianity) Referring to the millennium, the period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth.

Related terms

• bimillennial
• decamillennial
• millennium
• quadrimillennial
• trimillennial

Translations

Noun

millennial (plural millennials)

2. A demographic term for a person from the generation born from around the early 1980s to the mid 1990s; individuals who reached adulthood early in the 3rd millennium, C.E.

Alternative forms

• Millennial

Derived terms

• xennial

Translations

See also

References

Spanish

Noun

millennial m or f (plural millennials)

1. millennial

English

Alternative forms

• millenium (archaic)

Etymology

From Late Latin millennium, from Latin m?lle (“thousand”) + -ennium (from annus (“year”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l?n??m/

Noun

millennium (plural millennia or millenniums)

1. A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
2. (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
3. A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
4. (with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.

Synonyms

• yearthousand
• kiloyear (kyr)
• kiloannum (ka)

Derived terms

• decamillennium
• centimillennium
• millennial
• millennium bug
• millionennium

Translations

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil?ni?m/, [mi?l?n?i?m]

Noun

millennium n (singular definite millenniet, plural indefinite millennier)

1. millennium

Inflection

Synonyms

• årtusinde

Further reading

• millennium on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?llennium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?l?.ni.?m/
• Hyphenation: mil?len?ni?um

Noun

millennium n (plural millennia, diminutive milleniumtje n)

1. millennium

Latin

Etymology

From m?lle and annus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mi?l?len.ni.um/, [mi?l??l??n?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mil?len.ni.um/, [mil?l?n?ium]

Noun

m?llennium n (genitive m?llenni? or m?llenn?); second declension

1. millennium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

millennium n (definite singular millenniet, indefinite plural millennier, definite plural millennia or millenniene)

1. millennium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

millennium n (definite singular millenniet, indefinite plural millennium, definite plural millennia)

1. millennium

Swedish

Noun

millennium n

1. a millennium, a period of one thousand years

Declension

Synonyms

• årtusende

See also

• år
• århundrade
• årtionde
• decennium
• sekel