triennium

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin triennium.

Noun

triennium (plural trienniums or triennia)

1. A period of three years.

Related terms

• (adj.): triennial, trieterical
• (2-year period): biennium
• (4-year period): quadrennium, tetraeteris, tetraeterid

Translations

period of three years

• French: triennal (fr) m
• Galician: trienio m
• German: Triennium (de) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: triennium n
• Ukrainian: триріччя n (tryriččja)

Anagrams

• nitrenium

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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

• English: triennium
• Galician: trienio

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.