quinquennium
English
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Etymology
From Latin quīnquennium, from quinquennis (“5-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
quinquennium (plural quinquenniums or quinquennia)
- A period of five years.
- Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, triennium, quadrennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, novennium, decennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium
- During the quinquennium from 1991 to 1995, infant mortality increased.
Usage notes
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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- (adj.): quinquennial, quintennial
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References
- “quinquennium, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Latin
Etymology
From quinquennis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kʷiːnˈkʷen.ni.um/, [kʷiːŋˈkʷɛnːiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwinˈkwen.ni.um/, [kwiŋˈkwɛnːium]
Noun
quīnquennium n (genitive quīnquenniī or quīnquennī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
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).
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References
- “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.
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