vicennium

English

Etymology

From Latin vicennium, from vīcennis (20-year) + -ium, from vīciēs (20 times) + annus (year) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives). Equivalent to vicennial +‎ -ium.

Noun

vicennium (plural vicennia or vicenniums)

  1. (rare) A period of twenty years.

Derived terms

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From vīcennis (20-year) +‎ -ium (-ium: forming abstract nouns), from vīciēs (20 times) + annus (year) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives).

Noun

vīcennium n (genitive vīcenniī or vīcennī); second declension

  1. vicennium, a 20-year period
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative vīcennium vīcennia
genitive vīcenniī
vīcennī1
vīcenniōrum
dative vīcenniō vīcenniīs
accusative vīcennium vīcennia
ablative vīcenniō vīcenniīs
vocative vīcennium vīcennia

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

Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: vicennium
  • Italian: vicennio

Etymology 2

Adjective

vīcennium

  1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of vīcennis

References

  • vicennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vicennium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.