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quadrennium
English
Etymology
From Latin quadrennium, from quadri- (“four”) + annus (“year”) + -ium (“-ium: forming neuter nouns”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kw??d??n?j?m/
Noun
quadrennium (plural quadrenniums or quadrennia)
- A period of 4 years, (especially historical astronomy) the sets of four years in the Egyptian and Greek calendars.
Synonyms
- tetraeteris, tetraeterid
Related terms
- quadrennial
- (3-year period): triennium
- (5-year period): quinquennium, quinquenniad, quintennium, lustrum
- 10-year period: decade
- 100-year period: century
- 1000-year period: millennium
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quinquennium
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin qu?nquennium.
Noun
quinquennium (plural quinquenniums or quinquennia)
- A period of five years.
- During the quinquennium from 1991 to 1995, infant mortality increased.
Synonyms
- lustrum
- quinquenniad, quintennium
Related terms
- (adj.): quinquennial, quintennial
- (4-year period): quadrennium, tetraeteris, tetraeterid
- (6-year period): sexennium
Translations
Latin
Etymology
From quinquennis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /k?i?n?k?en.ni.um/, [k?i???k??n?i???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwin?kwen.ni.um/, [kwi??kw?n?ium]
Noun
qu?nquennium n (genitive qu?nquenni? or qu?nquenn?); second declension
- A period of five years.
- a five-year term
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- qu?nque
- qu?nquenn?lis
- qu?nquennis
References
- quinquennium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quinquennium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quinquennium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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