tricennium
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin trīcennium, from trīcennis (“30-year”) + -ium, from trīciēs (“[30]] times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjectives”). Equivalent to tricennial + -ium.
Noun edit
tricennium (plural tricennia or tricenniums)
- (rare) A period of thirty years.
- 1979, Thomas J. Dunlap, transl. Herwig Wolfram as History of the Goths, p. 298:
- As early as the second decade after his entry into Italy Theodoric made all illegal or irregular acquisitions that had taken place prior to this fixed date [28 August 489] subject to the thirty-year statue of limitation (tricennium).
- 2021, Gavin Lucas, Making Time, page 48:
- With a site I have been working with in Iceland, I am dealing with 30-year time units or tricennia, and even if it is no Pompeii, there are still features that we know represented much shorter time scales—the construction of a fireplace that could have been accomplished in a day, the placing of a coin under a timber sill beam that only took a few seconds.
- 1979, Thomas J. Dunlap, transl. Herwig Wolfram as History of the Goths, p. 298:
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- annum (1 year), biennium (2), triennium (3), quadrennium (4), quinquennium (5), sexennium (6), septennium (7), octennium (8), novennium (9), decennium (10), vicennium (20), centennium (100), quincentennium (500), millennium (1000), decamillennium (10,000), centimillennium (100,000), millionennium (1,000,000)
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /triːˈken.ni.um/, [t̪riːˈkɛnːiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /triˈt͡ʃen.ni.um/, [t̪riˈt͡ʃɛnːium]
Etymology 1 edit
From trīcennis (“30-year”) + -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from trīciēs (“30 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjectives”).
Noun edit
trīcennium n (genitive trīcenniī or trīcennī); second declension
- tricennium, a 30-year period
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | trīcennium | trīcennia |
Genitive | trīcenniī trīcennī1 |
trīcenniōrum |
Dative | trīcenniō | trīcenniīs |
Accusative | trīcennium | trīcennia |
Ablative | trīcenniō | trīcenniīs |
Vocative | trīcennium | trīcennia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: tricennium
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
trīcennium
References edit
- “tricennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tricennium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.