ventennio
Italian
Alternative forms
- Ventennio (historical sense only)
Etymology
venti + -ennio
Noun
ventennio m (plural ventenni)
- a period of twenty years
- nell'ultimo ventennio del secolo scorso ― in the last twenty years of the last century
- (historical, with definite article) the twenty years of Fascist rule in Italy (1922-1943)
- la lingua del ventennio ― the language of Fascism
Further reading
- ventennio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana