novennis

From novem (“nine”) +‎ annus (“year”) +‎ -is (suffix forming compound adjectives).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nɔˈwɛn.nɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [noˈvɛn.nis]

novennis (neuter novenne); third-declension two-termination adjective (post-classical)

1. nine-year-old

   Synonym: novennālis

   • c. 316 CE – c. 325 CE, Lactantius, De mortibus persecutorum 20.3–4:

     Habebat ipse [Maximianus] Licinium veteris contubernii amicum et a prima militia familiarem, cuius consiliis ad omnia regenda utebatur; sed eum Caesarem facere noluit, ne filium nominaret, ut postea in Constantii locum nuncuparet Augustum atque fratrem, tunc vero ipse principatum teneret ac pro arbitrio suo debacchatus in orbem terrae vicennalia celebraret, ac substituto Caesare filio suo, tunc erat novennis, et ipse deponeret, ita cum imperii summam tenerent Licinius ac Severus et secundum Caesarum nomen Maximinus et Candidianus, inexpugnabili muro circumsaeptus securam et tranquillam degeret senectutem.

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2. of nine years, lasting nine years

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Third-declension two-termination adjective.

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