duodecade
English
Etymology 1
duodeca- + -ad(e); compare decade.
Noun
duodecade (plural duodecades)
- A period of twelve years.
- 1880, The Popular Science Monthly, page 471:
- A second part is meadow-land, and every twelve years this is divided into as many parts as there are holders of village rights, and each one receives a share, of which he has the exclusive use until the redivision at the end of the duodecade.
- 1880, The Popular Science Monthly, page 471:
Alternative forms
- dodecade (less common)
Coordinate terms
- (group) monad, duad/dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, hebdomad/heptad, ogdoad/octad, ennead/nonad, decad/decade, hendecad, dodecad/duodecade, chiliad
Related terms
- dodecad
Etymology 2
duo- + decade.
Noun
duodecade (plural duodecades)
- (possibly nonstandard) A period of twenty years.
- 1996, Mary Lindemann, Health & Healing in Eighteenth-century Germany, →ISBN:
- When I divide the past sixty years, 1706-65, into twenty-year periods, [I discover that] in the first duodecade, 702 people died, that is, an average of 35 a year. In the second period to 1745, 850, or 42i/$ each year, perished.
- 1999, Reformation:
- McIntosh sampled four to six consecutive Leet Court sessions, usually covering two to three years, in each twenty-year span or 'duodecade' of her period. Her f1gures therefore provide a minimum number of communities involved ...
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Latin
Noun
duōdecade
- ablative singular of duōdecas