sexennium

== English == === Etymology === From Latin sexennium, from sexennis (“6-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /sɛkˈsɛniəm/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɛkˈsɛnɪəm/ === Noun === sexennium (plural sexenniums or sexennia) A period of six years. Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, triennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, septennium, octennium, novennium, decennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium ==== Synonyms ==== sexennate ==== Hypernyms ==== See sextet ==== Related terms ==== (adj.) sexennial === References === “sexennium, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sɛkˈsɛn.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [seɡˈzɛn.ni.um] === Etymology 1 === From sexennis (“of six years; six years old”) + -ium. ==== Noun ==== sexennium n (genitive sexenniī or sexennī); second declension a period of six years, sexennium ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ===== Coordinate terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Catalan: sexenni → English: sexennium → Italian: sessennio → Spanish: sexenio === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Adjective ==== sexennium genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of sexennis === References === “sexennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “sexennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “sexennium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.