different between sexennial vs sexennium

English

Etymology

From post-classical Latin Latin sexennialis (16th century), from Classical sexennium (“a period of six years”).

Adjective

sexennial (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a period of six years; taking place once every six years. [from 17th c.]
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:

     [T]his evil was exterior and accidental, and not so much the vice of their constitution itself, as it must be in your new contrivance of sexennial elective judicatories.

Noun

sexennial (plural sexennials)

1. A sexennial event.

Further reading

• sexennial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sexennial in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sexennial at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sexennium.

Noun

sexennium (plural sexenniums or sexennia)

1. A period of six years.

Latin

Etymology

From sexennis (“of six years”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sek?sen.ni.um/, [s??k?s??n?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sek?sen.ni.um/, [s???z?n?ium]

Noun

sexennium n (genitive sexenni? or sexenn?); second declension

1. A period or span of six years.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Related terms

• (adj.): sexennial
• (5-year period): quinquennium, quinquenniad, quintennium
• (7-year period): septennium, septenniad, septennary, septenary

Descendants

• ? Catalan: sexenni
• ? English: sexennium
• ? Italian: sessennio
• ? Spanish: sexenio

References

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