ventennio
Italian edit
Alternative forms edit
- Ventennio (historical sense only)
Etymology edit
From venti (“twenty”) + -ennio (“-year period”).
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Noun edit
ventennio m (plural ventenni)
- a period of twenty years
- nell'ultimo ventennio del secolo scorso ― in the last twenty years of the last century
- (historical, with definite article) the twenty years of Fascist rule in Italy (1922-1943)
- la lingua del ventennio ― the language of Fascism
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Further reading edit
- ventennio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana