quinquennis

Latin

Etymology

From quīnque (“five”) +‎ annus (“year”) +‎ -is (“forming compound adjectives”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʷiːŋˈkʷɛn.nɪs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kʷiŋˈkʷɛn.nis]

Adjective

quīnquennis (neuter quīnquenne); third-declension two-termination adjective

five-year-old
- c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus prologus.0.81–88:
  Revertor rursus denuo Carthaginem:
  si quid mandare voltis aut curarier,
  argentum nisi qui dederit, nugas egerit;
  [verum] qui dederit, magis maiores nugas egerit.
  Sed illi patruo huius, qui vivit senex,
  Carthaginiensi duae fuere filiae,
  altera quinquennis, altera quadrimula:
  cum nutrice una periere a Magaribus.
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- c. 35 BCE, Horace, Satires (book 2) II.55-62:
  Avidienus, cui Canis ex vero dictum cognomen adhaeret,
  quinquennis oleas est et silvestria corna
  ac nisi mutatum parcit defundere vinum et
  cuius odorem olei nequeas perferre, licebit
  ille repotia, natalis aliosve dierum
  festos albatus celebret, cornu ipse bilibri
  caulibus instillat, veteris non parcus aceti.
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- 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica VII.3.6:
  Femina [capra] post bimatum maritari debet iuvenisque habetur quinquennis; fatiscit post annum septimum.
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- 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia VIII.12:
  Antiocho vadum fluminis experienti renuit Aiax, alioqui dux agminis semper. Tum pronuntiatum eius fore principatum qui transisset, ausumque Patroclum ob id phaleris argenteis, quo maxime gaudent, et reliquo omni primatu donavit. Ille, qui notabatur, inedia mortem ignominiae praetulit. Mirus namque pudor est, victusque vocem fugit victoris, terram ac verbenas porrigit. Pudore numquam nisi in abdito coeunt, mas quinquennis, femina decennis.
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quinquennial, celebrated or occuring every five years
- 12 CE – 13 CE, Ovid, Letters from the Black Sea IV.VI:
  Quam legis, ex illis tibi venit epistula, Brute, Nasonem nolles in quibus esse locis, sed tu quod nolles, voluit miserabile fatum, ei mihi! plus illud quam tua vota valet. In Scythia nobis quinquennis Olympias acta est: iam tempus lustri transit in alterius. Perstat enim fortuna tenax, votisque malignum opponit nostris insidiosa pedem.
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of five years, lasting five years
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Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	quīnquennis	quīnquenne	quīnquennēs	quīnquennia
genitive	quīnquennis		quīnquennium
dative	quīnquennī		quīnquennibus
accusative	quīnquennem	quīnquenne	quīnquennīs quīnquennēs	quīnquennia
ablative	quīnquennī		quīnquennibus
vocative	quīnquennis	quīnquenne	quīnquennēs	quīnquennia

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Descendants

English: quinquenniad
Italian: quinquenne, cinquenne

References

“quinquennis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“quinquennis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.