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)
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Related terms
- annum (1 year), biennium (2), triennium (3), quadrennium (4), quinquennium (5), sexennium (6), septennium (7), octennium (8), novennium (9), decennium (10), tricennium (30), centennium (100), quincentennium (500), millennium (1000), decamillennium (10,000), centimillennium (100,000), millionennium (1,000,000)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wiːˈkɛn.ni.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [viˈt͡ʃɛn.ni.um]
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
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
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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).
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Etymology 2
Adjective
vīcennium
- 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.