vicennium

English

Etymology

From Latin vicennium, from vīcennis (“20-year”) + -ium, from vīciēs (“20 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives). Equivalent to vicennial +‎ -ium.

Noun

vicennium (plural vicennia or vicenniums)

1. (rare) A period of twenty years.

Derived terms

• vicennial

 

Related terms

• vicennalia

 

Related terms

• annum (1 year), biennium (2), triennium (3), quadrennium (4), quinquennium (5), sexennium (6), septennium (7), octennium (8), novennium (9), decennium (10), tricennium (30), centennium (100), quincentennium (500), millennium (1000), decamillennium (10,000), centimillennium (100,000), millionennium (1,000,000)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iːˈken.ni.um/, [u̯iːˈkɛnːiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈt͡ʃen.ni.um/, [viˈt͡ʃɛnːium]

Etymology 1

From vīcennis (“20-year”) +‎ -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from vīciēs (“20 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives).

Noun

vīcennium n (genitive vīcenniī or vīcennī); second declension

1. vicennium, a 20-year period

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vīcennium	vīcennia
Genitive	vīcenniī vīcennī1	vīcenniōrum
Dative	vīcenniō	vīcenniīs
Accusative	vīcennium	vīcennia
Ablative	vīcenniō	vīcenniīs
Vocative	vīcennium	vīcennia

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

Derived terms

• vīcennālia

 

Related terms

• biennium
• decennium
• octennium
• quadriennium
• quinquennium
• septuennium
• sexennium
• tricennium
• triennium

 

Descendants

• English: vicennium
• Italian: vicennio

Etymology 2

Adjective

vīcennium

1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of vīcennis

References

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