novennium
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin novennium (“9-year [period]”).
Noun
novennium (plural not attested)
- (rare) A nine-year period or cycle.
- 1871, Henry Scale English, Crowland and Burgh (volume 3, page 148)
- What he says of the novennium is an attempt at duplicity; he would have escaped with that if he could; he did not love to lie: What he says is that Ernulfus was a bishop a little over nine years […]
- 1871, Henry Scale English, Crowland and Burgh (volume 3, page 148)
Related terms
- (adj.): novennial
- (5-year period): quinquennium
- (6-year period): sexennium
- (7-year period): septennium, septenniad, septennary, septenary
- (8-year period): octennium
- (10-year period): decade