novennium
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin novennium, from novennis (“9-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”).
Noun
[edit]novennium (plural novennia)
- (rare) A nine-year period.
- Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, triennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, decennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium
- 1871, Henry Scale English, Crowland and Burgh, volume 3, page 148:
- What he says of the novennium is an attempt at duplicity; he would have escaped with that if he could; he did not love to lie: What he says is that Ernulfus was a bishop a little over nine years […]
Hypernyms
[edit]- See ennead
Related terms
[edit]- (adj.): novennial, enneaeteric, enneatic
References
[edit]- “novennial, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From novennis (“9-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”).
Noun
[edit]novennium n
- (Late Latin) A nine-year period.
Descendants
[edit]- English: novennium
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- en:Nine
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- la:Nine