triennium

English

English numbers ^(edit)

←  2	3	4  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: three     Ordinal: third     Abbreviated ordinal: 3rd     Latinate ordinal: tertiary     Reverse order ordinal: third to last     Latinate reverse order ordinal: antepenultimate     Adverbial: three times, thrice     Multiplier: threefold     Latinate multiplier: triple     Distributive: triply     Germanic collective: trio, threesome     Collective of n parts: triplet     Greek or Latinate collective: triad     Greek collective prefix: tri-     Latinate collective prefix: tri-     Fractional: third     Elemental: triplet     Greek prefix: trito-     Number of musicians: trio, triplet     Number of years: triennium

Etymology

From Latin triennium, from triennis (“3-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /traɪˈɛniəm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /trʌɪˈɛnɪəm/

Noun

triennium (plural trienniums or triennia)

1. A period of three years.

   Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, novennium, decennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium

Hypernyms

• See Thesaurus:trio

Related terms

• (adj.): triennial, triennal, trieterical, trienniated
• (adv.): triennially

Translations

period of three years

French: triennal (fr) m Galician: trienio m German: Triennium (de) n Italian: triennio (it) m Japanese: 三年 (sannen), 三年 (mitose) Latin: triennium n Polish: trzylecie n Portuguese: triénio (pt) m (Portugal) Spanish: trienio (es) Swedish: treårsperiod (sv) c Ukrainian: триріччя n (tryriččja)

References

• “triennium, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Anagrams

• nitrenium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [triˈɛn.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪riˈɛn.ni.um]

Noun

triennium n (genitive trienniī or triennī); second declension

1. triennium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	triennium	triennia
genitive	trienniī triennī1	trienniōrum
dative	trienniō	trienniīs
accusative	triennium	triennia
ablative	trienniō	trienniīs
vocative	triennium	triennia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• triennia

Descendants

• Catalan: trienni
• English: triennium
• Galician: trienio
• Portuguese: triénio, triênio (Brazil)

References

• “triennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “triennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “triennium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.