septuennium

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From septuennis (of seven years; seven years old) +‎ -ium.

Noun

septuennium n (genitive septuenniī or septuennī); second declension

  1. (obsolete, only attested in glosses) a period of seven years, a septennium or †septenniad
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative septuennium septuennia
genitive septuenniī
septuennī1
septuenniōrum
dative septuenniō septuenniīs
accusative septuennium septuennia
ablative septuenniō septuenniīs
vocative septuennium septuennia

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

Alternative forms
Coordinate terms
Descendants
  • English: septennium

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

septuennis

  1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of septuennis

References

  • septŭennĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • septŭennĭum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,427/1.