tricennium

== English == === Etymology === From Latin trīcennium, from trīcennis (“30-year”) + -ium, from trīciēs (“30 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjectives”). Equivalent to tricennial +‎ -ium. === Noun === tricennium (plural tricennia or tricenniums) (rare) A period of thirty years. 1979, Thomas J. Dunlap, transl. Herwig Wolfram as History of the Goths, p. 298: As early as the second decade after his entry into Italy Theodoric made all illegal or irregular acquisitions that had taken place prior to this fixed date [28 August 489] subject to the thirty-year statue of limitation (tricennium). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== annum (1 year), biennium (2), triennium (3), quadrennium (4), quinquennium (5), sexennium (6), septennium (7), octennium (8), novennium (9), decennium (10), vicennium (20), centennium (100), quincentennium (500), millennium (1000), decamillennium (10,000), centimillennium (100,000), millionennium (1,000,000) == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [triːˈkɛn.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [triˈt͡ʃɛn.ni.um] === Etymology 1 === From trīcennis +‎ -ium (forming abstract nouns). ==== Noun ==== trīcennium n (genitive trīcenniī or trīcennī); second declension (Late Latin) tricennium, a thrity-year period ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ===== Coordinate terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== English: tricennium === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Adjective ==== trīcennium genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of trīcennis === References === “tricennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tricennium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.