triennium

English

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Cardinal: three     Ordinal: third     Abbreviated ordinal: 3rd     Latinate ordinal: tertiary     Reverse order ordinal: third last, third to last, third from last, last but two     Latinate reverse order ordinal: antepenultimate     Adverbial: three times, thrice     Multiplier: threefold     Latinate multiplier: triple     Distributive: triply     Germanic collective: trio, threesome     Collective of n parts: triplet     Greek or Latinate collective: triad     Greek collective prefix: tri-     Latinate collective prefix: tri-     Fractional: third     Elemental: triplet     Greek prefix: trito-     Number of musicians: trio, triplet     Number of years: triennium

Etymology

From Latin triennium, from triennis (“3-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /traɪˈɛniəm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /trʌɪˈɛnɪəm/

Noun

triennium (plural trienniums or triennia)

1. A period of three years.

   Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, novennium, decennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium

Hypernyms

• See Thesaurus:trio

Related terms

• (adj.): triennial, triennal, trieterical, trienniated
• (adv.): triennially

Translations

period of three years

• French: triennal (fr) m
• Galician: trienio m
• German: Triennium (de) n
• Italian: triennio (it) m
• Japanese: 三年 (sannen), 三年 (mitose)
• Latin: triennium n
• Polish: trzylecie n
• Portuguese: triénio (pt) m (Portugal)
• Spanish: trienio (es)
• Swedish: treårsperiod (sv) c
• Ukrainian: триріччя n (tryriččja)

References

• “triennium, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Anagrams

• nitrenium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [triˈɛn.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [triˈɛn.ni.um]

Etymology 1

Synchronically, from triennis +‎ -ium.

Noun

triennium n (genitive trienniī or triennī); second declension

1. a period of three years, triennium
   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus II. iii. 345-353:

     [Sceledrus] Agedum ergo face. Volo scire, utrum egon id quod vidi viderim
     an illic faciat, quod facturum dicit, ut ea sit domi.
     Nam ego quidem meos oculos habeo nec rogo utendos foris.
     Sed hic illi subparasitatur semper, hic eae proxumust,
     primus ad cibum vocatur, primo pulmentum datur;
     nam illic noster est fortasse circiter triennium,
     neque cuiquam quam illi in nostra meliust famulo familia.
     Sed ego hoc quod ago, id me agere oportet, hoc observare ostium.
     Sic obsistam. hac quidem pol certo verba mihi numquam dabunt.

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   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico IV.4:

     In eadem causa fuerunt Usipetes et Tencteri, quos supra diximus; qui complures annos Sueborum vim sustinuerunt, ad extremum tamen agris expulsi et multis locis Germaniae triennium vagati ad Rhenum pervenerunt, quas regiones Menapii incolebant.

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Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	triennium	triennia
genitive	trienniī triennī1	trienniōrum
dative	trienniō	trienniīs
accusative	triennium	triennia
ablative	trienniō	trienniīs
vocative	triennium	triennia

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

Coordinate terms

• (2-year period): biennium
• (4-year period): quadriennium
• (5-year period): quīnquennium
• (6-year period): sexennium
• (7-year period): septuennium
• (8-year period): octennium
• (9-year period): novennium
• (10-year period): decennium

Derived terms

• triennia

Descendants

• Catalan: trienni
• English: triennium
• Galician: trienio
• Portuguese: triénio, triênio (Brazil)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

triennium

1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of triennis

References

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