different between quadrennial vs biennium

English

Alternative forms

• quadriennial

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quadriennium (“four-year period”), from quattuor (“four”) + annus (“year”); surface analysis quadr- +? -ennial.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw??d??n.i.?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kw??d??ni.?l/
• Rhymes: -?d??n??l

Adjective

quadrennial (not comparable)

1. Happening every four years.
   • 1852, Millard Fillmore, State of the Union Address:

     The quadrennial election of Chief Magistrate has passed off with less than the usual excitement.

2. Lasting for four years.

Derived terms

• quadrennially

Related terms

• triennial
• biennial
• perennial
• annual

Noun

quadrennial (plural quadrennials)

1. A four-year period, a quadrennium.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin biennium, from bi- (“prefix meaning ‘having two parts; occurring twice’”) (from bis (“twice”), from duis, from duo (“two”), from Proto-Indo-European *duwo, *dwóh? (“two”)) + annus (“year”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?et-no-, probably from *h?et- (“to go”)) + -ium (“suffix forming nouns”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-yós (“suffix forming adjectives from nouns”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b????n.?.?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ba???n.i.?m/
• Hyphenation: bi?enn?i?um

Noun

biennium (plural bienniums or biennia)

1. A period of two years.

Coordinate terms

• (1-year period): See year
• (3-year period): triennium

Derived terms

• biennial
• biennially

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bi?en.ni.um/, [bi??n?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bi?en.ni.um/, [bi??n?ium]

Etymology 1

bi- +? annus +? -ium

Noun

biennium n (genitive bienni? or bienn?); second declension

1. biennium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Descendants

• ? Catalan: bienni
• ? English: biennium
• ? Italian: biennio
• ? Spanish: bienio

Etymology 2

Regularly declined forms of biennis.

Adjective

biennium

1. genitive masculine plural of biennis
2. genitive feminine plural of biennis
3. genitive neuter plural of biennis

References

• biennium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• biennium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• biennium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• biennium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette