quadriennium
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
quadriennium (plural quadrienniums or quadriennia)
- Alternative form of quadrennium
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From quadriennis (“4-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”).
Noun[edit]
quadriennium n (genitive quadrienniī or quadriennī); second declension
- quadrennium: a period of 4 years
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | quadriennium | quadriennia |
Genitive | quadrienniī quadriennī1 |
quadrienniōrum |
Dative | quadrienniō | quadrienniīs |
Accusative | quadriennium | quadriennia |
Ablative | quadrienniō | quadrienniīs |
Vocative | quadriennium | quadriennia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants[edit]
- English: quadrennium, quadrennial
References[edit]
- “quadriennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quadriennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quadriennium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.