septennium

== English == === Etymology === From Late Latin septennium, from septennis (“7-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /sɛpˈtɛniəm/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɛpˈtɛnɪəm/ === Noun === septennium (plural septenniums or septennia) A period of seven years. [1660] Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, triennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, sexennium, octennium, novennium, decennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium 1868, Mark Pattison, Suggestions on Academical Organisation with Especial Reference to Oxford, section VI: “Of the Studies Preliminary to the Degree”, § 4: ‘Liberal Studies (Arts) and Special Studies (Science)’, page 265: It might be sufficient to answer, that, of the septennium required for the arts degree in the old system the greater portion is now spent at school. ==== Synonyms ==== septenniad (rare) ==== Hypernyms ==== septet, heptad, septuor ==== Related terms ==== (adj.) septennial; septennian (obsolete, rare) ==== Translations ==== === References === “Septenʹnium” on page 355/3 of John Ogilvie’s Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological and Scientific (1855) “‖Septennium” on page 479/3 of part ii (S–Sh; edited by Henry Bradley) of volume VIII (Q–Sh; 1st ed., 1914) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles “‖septennium” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989) == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sɛpˈtɛn.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sepˈtɛn.ni.um] === Noun === septennium n (genitive septenniī or septennī); second declension alternative spelling of septuennium ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== English: septennium, septennial === References === “septennĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “septennĭum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,426/2.