decennium

From Latin decennium, from decennis (“10-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns), from deciēs (“ten times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives). Equivalent to decennial +‎ -ium.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛnɪəm/

decennium (plural decenniums or decennia)

1. (rare) Synonym of decade: a ten year period.

   Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, triennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, novennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium

   • 1998, soc.culture.netherlands‎^[1] (Usenet):

     G.B. still has to cope with the heritage of approx. 20 years of consecutive Conservative reigns, just as you guys are getting your act together after almost a decennium of Enlightened Ronnie.

   • 1996, soc.culture.usa‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Christian leaders refused even to *look* through Galileo's telescope (as a matter of fact, the Vatican cleared Galileo's name only as late as in the previous decennium).

When decennium is used in place of the more common decade, it is generally employed to avoid the connection of decade with the set spans of ten year calendar periods whose last digits run from 1 to 0 or 0 to 9.

• (adj.): See decennial
• (adv.): See decennially
• (10-year anniversary): decennial

From Latin decennium.

decennium n (singular definite decenniet, plural indefinite decennier)

1. decade; a period of ten years

• “decennium” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “decennium” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from Latin decennium.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdeːˈsɛ.ni.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: de‧cen‧ni‧um
• Rhymes: -ɛniʏm

decennium n (plural decennia or decenniën or decenniums, diminutive decenniumpje n)

1. a decade, a period of ten years

   Synonyms: (rare) decade, jaartiental

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɛˈkɛn.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [deˈt͡ʃɛn.ni.um]

From decennis +‎ -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).

decennium n (genitive decenniī or decennī); second declension

1. (post-classical) a period of ten years, a decennium, decade
   • 2nd century, Apuleius, On the God of Socrates XVIII:

     Calchas autem longe praestabilis hariolari simul alites et altaria et arborem contemplatus est, actutum sua divinatione et tempestates flexit et classem deduxit et decennium praedixit; non secus et in Troiano exercitu cum divinatione res indigent, tacet ille sapiens senatus nec audet aliquid pronuntiare vel Hicetaon vel Lampo vel Clytius, sed omnes silentio auscultant aut ingrata auguria Heleni aut incredita vaticinia Cassandrae.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Danish: decennium
• Dutch: decennium
• English: decennium
• Norwegian: decennium, desennium
• Swedish: decennium

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

decennium

1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of decennis

• “decennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “decennium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

decennium n (definite singular decenniet, indefinite plural decennier, definite plural decennia or decenniene)

1. alternative spelling of desennium

decennium n (definite singular decenniet, indefinite plural decennium, definite plural decennia)

1. alternative spelling of desennium

• IPA^(key): /dɛˈsɛnɪɵm/

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decennium n

1. a decade (period of ten years)

   Synonym: årtionde

• decennium in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• decennium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• decennium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)