vicennium
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin vicennium, from vīcennis (“20-year”) + -ium, from vīciēs (“20 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjectives”). Equivalent to vicennial + -ium.
Noun
editvicennium (plural vicennia or vicenniums)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editRelated terms
edit- 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
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯iːˈken.ni.um/, [u̯iːˈkɛnːiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈt͡ʃen.ni.um/, [viˈt͡ʃɛnːium]
Etymology 1
editFrom vīcennis (“20-year”) + -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from vīciēs (“20 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjectives”).
Noun
editvīcennium n (genitive vīcenniī or vīcennī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
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).
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
editEtymology 2
editAdjective
editvīcennium
References
edit- “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.
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- en:Twenty
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- la:Time
- la:Twenty