quinquennium
English
Alternative forms
- quinquennie
Etymology
From Latin quīnquennium, from quinquennis (“5-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kwɪŋˈkwɛniəm/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kwɪŋˈkwɛnɪəm/, /kwɪnˈkwɛnɪəm/
Noun
quinquennium (plural quinquenniums or quinquennia)
- A period of five years.
- Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, triennium, quadrennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, novennium, decennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium
- During the quinquennium from 1991 to 1995, infant mortality increased.
Usage notes
The Roman usage of the term counted inclusively so that quinquennia were 4 year cycles. This is not usually intended in English but may occur in translations of classical texts.
Pentad or the neologism quintade are sometimes used when one wishes to specify the first and second halves of calendrical decades. Lustrum and luster are particularly used for the 5 year periods of the Roman censuses, after the purification ritual that usually followed the count.
Synonyms
- quinquenniad, quintennium, pentad, quintade, lustrum, luster
Hyponyms
- See Thesaurus:quintet
Related terms
- (adj.): quinquennial, quintennial
Translations
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References
- “quinquennium, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Latin
Etymology
From quinquennis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷiːnˈkʷen.ni.um/, [kʷiːŋˈkʷɛnːiʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwinˈkwen.ni.um/, [kwiŋˈkwɛnːium]
Noun
quīnquennium n (genitive quīnquenniī or quīnquennī); second declension
- A period of five years.
- a five-year term
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | quīnquennium | quīnquennia |
Genitive | quīnquenniī quīnquennī1 | quīnquenniōrum |
Dative | quīnquenniō | quīnquenniīs |
Accusative | quīnquennium | quīnquennia |
Ablative | quīnquenniō | quīnquenniīs |
Vocative | quīnquennium | quīnquennia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- quīnque
- quīnquennālis
- quīnquennis
References
- “quinquennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quinquennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quinquennium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette