triennium

== English == === Etymology === From Latin triennium, from triennis (“3-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /traɪˈɛniəm/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /trʌɪˈɛnɪəm/ === Noun === triennium (plural trienniums or triennia) A period of three years. Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, novennium, decennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium ==== Hypernyms ==== See Thesaurus:trio ==== Related terms ==== (adj.): triennial, triennal, trieterical, trienniated (adv.): triennially ==== Translations ==== === References === “triennium, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. === Anagrams === nitrenium == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [triˈɛn.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [triˈɛn.ni.um] === Etymology 1 === Synchronically, from triennis +‎ -ium. ==== Noun ==== triennium n (genitive trienniī or triennī); second declension a period of three years, triennium ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ===== Coordinate terms ===== ===== Derived terms ===== triennia ===== Descendants ===== Catalan: trienni English: triennium Galician: trienio Portuguese: triénio, triênio (Brazil) === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Adjective ==== triennium genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of triennis === References === “triennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “triennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “triennium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.