triennium
English
| ← 2 | 3 | 4 → [a], [b] |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: three Ordinal: third Abbreviated ordinal: 3rd Latinate ordinal: tertiary Reverse order ordinal: third to last Latinate reverse order ordinal: antepenultimate Adverbial: three times, thrice Multiplier: threefold Latinate multiplier: triple Distributive: triply Germanic collective: trio, threesome Collective of n parts: triplet Greek or Latinate collective: triad Greek collective prefix: tri- Latinate collective prefix: tri- Fractional: third Elemental: triplet Greek prefix: trito- Number of musicians: trio, triplet Number of years: triennium | ||
Etymology
From Latin triennium, from triennis (“3-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /traɪˈɛniəm/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /trʌɪˈɛnɪəm/
Noun
triennium (plural trienniums or triennia)
- A period of three years.
- Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, novennium, decennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium
Hypernyms
- See Thesaurus:trio
Related terms
- (adj.): triennial, triennal, trieterical, trienniated
- (adv.): triennially
Translations
period of three years
References
- “triennium, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [triˈɛn.ni.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t̪riˈɛn.ni.um]
Noun
triennium n (genitive trienniī or triennī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | triennium | triennia |
| genitive | trienniī triennī1 |
trienniōrum |
| dative | trienniō | trienniīs |
| accusative | triennium | triennia |
| ablative | trienniō | trienniīs |
| vocative | triennium | triennia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “triennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “triennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- triennium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.