triennium
English
| ← 2 | 3 | 4 → [a], [b] |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: three Ordinal: third Abbreviated ordinal: 3rd Latinate ordinal: tertiary Reverse order ordinal: third last, third to last, third from last, last but two Latinate reverse order ordinal: antepenultimate Adverbial: three times, thrice Multiplier: threefold Latinate multiplier: triple Distributive: triply Germanic collective: trio, threesome Collective of n parts: triplet Greek or Latinate collective: triad Greek collective prefix: tri- Latinate collective prefix: tri- Fractional: third Elemental: triplet Greek prefix: trito- Number of musicians: trio, triplet Number of years: triennium | ||
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
period of three years
References
- “triennium, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Anagrams
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
- c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus II. iii. 345-353:
- [Sceledrus] Agedum ergo face. Volo scire, utrum egon id quod vidi viderim
an illic faciat, quod facturum dicit, ut ea sit domi.
Nam ego quidem meos oculos habeo nec rogo utendos foris.
Sed hic illi subparasitatur semper, hic eae proxumust,
primus ad cibum vocatur, primo pulmentum datur;
nam illic noster est fortasse circiter triennium,
neque cuiquam quam illi in nostra meliust famulo familia.
Sed ego hoc quod ago, id me agere oportet, hoc observare ostium.
Sic obsistam. hac quidem pol certo verba mihi numquam dabunt.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- [Sceledrus] Agedum ergo face. Volo scire, utrum egon id quod vidi viderim
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico IV.4:
- In eadem causa fuerunt Usipetes et Tencteri, quos supra diximus; qui complures annos Sueborum vim sustinuerunt, ad extremum tamen agris expulsi et multis locis Germaniae triennium vagati ad Rhenum pervenerunt, quas regiones Menapii incolebant.
- In that same matter there were the Usipetes and the Tencteri, whom we talked already; they aided the Suebi for many years, but in the end they were cast away from the fields and after wandering for three years through many parts of Germany they came to the Rhine, in the regions inhabited by the Menapii.
- In eadem causa fuerunt Usipetes et Tencteri, quos supra diximus; qui complures annos Sueborum vim sustinuerunt, ad extremum tamen agris expulsi et multis locis Germaniae triennium vagati ad Rhenum pervenerunt, quas regiones Menapii incolebant.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | triennium | triennia |
| genitive | trienniī triennī1 |
trienniōrum |
| dative | trienniō | trienniīs |
| accusative | triennium | triennia |
| ablative | trienniō | trienniīs |
| vocative | triennium | triennia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Coordinate terms
- (2-year period): biennium
- (4-year period): quadriennium
- (5-year period): quīnquennium
- (6-year period): sexennium
- (7-year period): septuennium
- (8-year period): octennium
- (9-year period): novennium
- (10-year period): decennium
Derived terms
Descendants
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.