septuennium

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sɛp.tuˈɛn.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sep.tuˈɛn.ni.um] === Etymology 1 === From septuennis (“of seven years; seven years old”) + -ium. ==== Noun ==== septuennium n (genitive septuenniī or septuennī); second declension (obsolete, only attested in glosses) a period of seven years, a septennium or †septenniad ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ===== Alternative forms ===== septennium ===== Coordinate terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== English: septennium === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Adjective ==== septuennis genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of septuennis === References === “septŭennĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “septŭennĭum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,427/1.