triennium

English

Etymology

From Latin triennium, from triennis (“3-year”) + -ium (“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
• Latin: triennium n
• Polish: trzylecie n
• Portuguese: triénio (pt) m (Portugal)
• Ukrainian: триріччя n (tryriččja)

References

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

Anagrams

• nitrenium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /triˈen.ni.um/, [t̪riˈɛnːiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /triˈen.ni.um/, [t̪riˈɛnːium]

Noun

triennium n (genitive trienniī or triennī); second declension

1. triennium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	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).

Related terms

• triennia

Descendants

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

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.