quinquennium
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin quīnquennium, from quinquennis (“5-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /kwɪŋˈkwɛniəm/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kwɪŋˈkwɛnɪəm/, /kwɪnˈkwɛnɪəm/
Noun edit
quinquennium (plural quinquenniums or quinquennia)
- A period of five years.
- Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, triennium, quadrennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, novennium, decennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium
- During the quinquennium from 1991 to 1995, infant mortality increased.
Usage notes edit
The Roman usage of the term counted inclusively so that quinquennia were 4 year cycles. This is not usually intended in English but may occur in translations of classical texts.
Pentad or the neologism quintade are sometimes used when one wishes to specify the first and second halves of calendrical decades. Lustrum and luster are particularly used for the 5 year periods of the Roman censuses, after the purification ritual that usually followed the count.
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Related terms edit
- (adj.): quinquennial, quinquennal, quintennial
Translations edit
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References edit
- “quinquennium, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷiːnˈkʷen.ni.um/, [kʷiːŋˈkʷɛnːiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwinˈkwen.ni.um/, [kwiŋˈkwɛnːium]
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
quīnquennium
Etymology 2 edit
From quīnquennis (“5-year”) + -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from quīnque (“five”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjs”).
Noun edit
quīnquennium n (genitive quīnquenniī or quīnquennī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | quīnquennium | quīnquennia |
Genitive | quīnquenniī quīnquennī1 |
quīnquenniōrum |
Dative | quīnquenniō | quīnquenniīs |
Accusative | quīnquennium | quīnquennia |
Ablative | quīnquenniō | quīnquenniīs |
Vocative | quīnquennium | quīnquennia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “quinquennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quinquennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quinquennium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.