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

• k'atun

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): [wiːˈkɛn.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [viˈt͡ʃɛn.ni.um]

Etymology 1

From vīcennis +‎ -ium (forming abstract nouns).

Noun

vīcennium n (genitive vīcenniī); second declension

1. (post-classical) vicennium, a twenty-year period
   • 493 CE – 526 CE, attributed to Flavius Theodericus, Edictum Theodorici Regis 68. Si originaria de ingenuo solo exierit:

     Originaria ex quo de ingenuo solo discesserit, intra vicennii spatia repetatur. Quod si originaria, expletis viginti annis, domino sub hac praescriptione perierit, simul eius agnatio, intra viginti annos suscepta a domino mulieris servato novellae legis tenore non pereat.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vīcennium	vīcennia
genitive	vīcenniī	vīcenniōrum
dative	vīcenniō	vīcenniīs
accusative	vīcennium	vīcennia
ablative	vīcenniō	vīcenniīs
vocative	vīcennium	vīcennia

Coordinate terms

• (2-year period): biennium
• (3-year period): triennium
• (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
• (30-year period): trīcennium

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.