quadriennium

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

quadriennium (plural quadrienniums or quadriennia)

  1. Alternative form of quadrennium

Latin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From quadriennis (“4-year”) +‎ -ium (“forming abstract nouns”).

Noun[edit]

quadriennium n (genitive quadrienniī or quadriennī); second declension

  1. quadrennium: a period of 4 years

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative quadriennium quadriennia
Genitive quadrienniī
quadriennī1 		quadrienniōrum
Dative quadrienniō quadrienniīs
Accusative quadriennium quadriennia
Ablative quadrienniō quadrienniīs
Vocative quadriennium quadriennia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants[edit]

  • English: quadrennium, quadrennial

References[edit]

  • “quadriennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “quadriennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quadriennium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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