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tricennium

tricennium noun: a period of thirty years.

Noun

tricennium (plural tricennia or tricenniums)

  1. (rare) A period of thirty years.
    • As early as the second decade after his entry into Italy Theodoric made all illegal or irregular acquisitions that had taken place prior to this fixed date [28 August 489] subject to the thirty-year statue of limitation (tricennium).1979, Thomas J. Dunlap, transl. Herwig Wolfram as History of the Goths, p. 298
    • With a site I have been working with in Iceland, I am dealing with 30-year time units or tricennia, and even if it is no Pompeii, there are still features that we know represented much shorter time scales—the construction of a fireplace that could have been accomplished in a day, the placing of a...2021, Gavin Lucas, Making Time, page 48

Forms of tricennium

pluraltricennia
pluraltricenniums

Origin of tricennium

From Latin trīcennium, from trīcennis (“30-year”) + -ium, from trīciēs (“30 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjectives”). Equivalent to tricennial + -ium.

Words formed from tricennium

Questions about tricennium

What does tricennium mean?
Tricennium means a period of thirty years.
What part of speech is tricennium?
Tricennium is a noun.
What is the plural of tricennium?
The plural of tricennium is tricennia.

Words near tricennium in the dictionary

  1. tricennalia
  2. tricennalias
  3. tricennals
  4. tricennia
  5. tricennial
  6. tricennium
  7. tricenniums
  8. tricent
  9. tricentenarian
  10. tricentenarians
  11. tricentenaries

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