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tricennalia

tricennalia noun: the festival and religious rituals celebrating a Roman emperor's 30th year of rule.

tricennalia: the festival and religious rituals celebrating a Roman emperor's 30th year of rule
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Noun (1)

tricennalia (plural tricennalia or tricennalias)

  1. (historical) The festival and religious rituals celebrating a Roman emperor's 30th year of rule.
    • In 336, the city was ready. Constantine the Great could celebrate his Tricennalia, his thirty-year jubilee, in his new capital. One year later, he was baptised and died.2008, Jona Lendering, “Constantine's City”, in Livius
    • As a chronological list of Roman emperors makes clear, several rulers reign long enough to enjoy their decennalia, but relatively few were fortunate enough to celebrate their vicennalia, their twentieth imperial anniversary; and from the second century onwards Constantine alone ruled long enough to...2012, Gary Forsythe, "Magna Mater and the Taurobolium", Time in Roman Religion, p. 111
    Synonyms:
    tricennial festival, tricennial celebration

Noun (2) capitalized: Tricennalia

Tricennalia (plural Tricennalia or Tricennalias)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of tricennalia.
    • In 336, the city was ready. Constantine the Great could celebrate his Tricennalia, his thirty-year jubilee, in his new capital. One year later, he was baptised and died.2008, Jona Lendering, “Constantine's City”, in Livius

Synonyms of tricennalia

  • tricennial festival
  • tricennial celebration

Forms of tricennalia

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alternative formTricennalia
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Origin of tricennalia

From Latin trīcennālia, from trīcennium (“30-year period”) + -ālia (“-alia: forming the names of festivals”), from trīcennis (“30-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”), from trīciēs (“thirty each”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjectives”). Equivalent to tricennium + -alia.

Questions about tricennalia

What does tricennalia mean?
Tricennalia means the festival and religious rituals celebrating a Roman emperor's 30th year of rule.
What part of speech is tricennalia?
Tricennalia is a noun.
What is the plural of tricennalia?
The plural of tricennalia is tricennalia.

Words near tricennalia in the dictionary

  1. tricenarian
  2. tricenarians
  3. tricenaries
  4. tricenary
  5. tricennal
  6. tricennalia
  7. tricennalias
  8. tricennals
  9. tricennia
  10. tricennial
  11. tricennium

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