"quinquennium" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kwɪŋˈkwɛniəm/ [General-American], /kwɪŋˈkwɛnɪəm/ [Received-Pronunciation], /kwɪnˈkwɛnɪəm/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: quinquenniums [plural], quinquennia [plural]
Etymology: From Latin quīnquennium, from quinquennis (“5-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|quīnquennium}} Latin quīnquennium Head templates: {{en-noun|s|quinquennia}} quinquennium (plural quinquenniums or quinquennia)
  1. A period of five years. Categories (topical): Five, Time Synonyms: quinquennial, quinquennal, quinquenniad, quintennium, pentad, quintade, lustrum, luster, quinquennie Hyponyms: quintet Related terms: quinquennial [adjective], quinquennal [adjective], quintennial [adjective] Translations (period of five years): llustru (Asturian), bosturteko (Basque), lustre [masculine] (Catalan), quinquennat [masculine] (French), lustre [masculine] (French), lustro (Galician), Lustrum [neuter] (German), Fünfjahresperiode [feminine] (German), Fünfjahreszeitraum [masculine] (German), Jahrfünft [neuter] (German), Quinquennium [neuter] (German), poarajere (Guaraní), quinquennio [masculine] (Italian), lustro [masculine] (Italian), lustra [feminine] (Italian), quinquennalità [feminine] (Italian), quinquennium (Latin), lūstrum [neuter] (Latin), pięciolecie [neuter] (Polish), lustro [masculine] (Portuguese), quinquénio [masculine] (Portuguese), люстр (ljustr) [feminine] (Russian), люстрации (ljustracii) [feminine] (Russian), युग (yuga) [neuter] (Sanskrit), lustro [masculine] (Spanish), люструм (ljustrum) (Ukrainian), lulyel (Volapük), lulyelayubid (Volapük)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.