septennium
English
Etymology
From Late Latin septennium, from septennis (“7-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /sɛpˈtɛniəm/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɛpˈtɛnɪəm/
Noun
septennium (plural septenniums or septennia)
- A period of seven years. [1660]
- Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, triennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, sexennium, octennium, novennium, decennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium
- 1868, Mark Pattison, Suggestions on Academical Organisation with Especial Reference to Oxford, section VI: “Of the Studies Preliminary to the Degree”, § 4: ‘Liberal Studies (Arts) and Special Studies (Science)’, page 265:
- It might be sufficient to answer, that, of the septennium required for the arts degree in the old system the greater portion is now spent at school.
Synonyms
- septenniad (rare)
Related terms
- (adj.) septennial; septennian (obsolete, rare)
Translations
period of seven years
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References
- “Septenʹnium” on page 355/3 of John Ogilvie’s Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological and Scientific (1855)
- “‖Septennium” on page 479/3 of part ii (S–Sh; edited by Henry Bradley) of volume VIII (Q–Sh; 1st ed., 1914) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
- “‖septennium” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sepˈten.ni.um/, [s̠ɛpˈt̪ɛnːiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sepˈten.ni.um/, [sepˈt̪ɛnːium]
Noun
septennium n (genitive septenniī or septennī); second declension
- Alternative spelling of septuennium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | septennium | septennia |
Genitive | septenniī septennī1 |
septenniōrum |
Dative | septenniō | septenniīs |
Accusative | septennium | septennia |
Ablative | septenniō | septenniīs |
Vocative | septennium | septennia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- English: septennium, septennial
References
- “septennĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- septennĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,426/2.
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