quadriennium
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 (suffix 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).
| 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.