novennium
English edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin novennium, from novennis (“9-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”).
Noun edit
novennium (plural novennia)
- (rare) A nine-year period.
- Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, triennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, decennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium
- 1871, Henry Scale English, Crowland and Burgh, volume 3, page 148:
- What he says of the novennium is an attempt at duplicity; he would have escaped with that if he could; he did not love to lie: What he says is that Ernulfus was a bishop a little over nine years […]
Hypernyms edit
- See ennead
Related terms edit
- (adj.): novennial, enneaeteric, enneatic
References edit
- “novennial, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From novennis (“9-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”).
Noun edit
novennium n
- (Late Latin) A nine-year period.
Descendants edit
- English: novennium