triennium Latin · revision 31158

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la trēs, la annus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [triˈɛn.ni.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [triˈɛn.ni.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''triennium''' ''n'' (genitive trienniī or triennī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed like [[m|la|triennis|t=three years old]] with the suffix [[m|la|-ium]], from [[m|la|tri-|t=three]] and [[m|la|annus|t=year]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives ⟨annus⟩ from [[itc-pro|*atno-|t=year]], perhaps [[ine-pro|*h₂et-no-|t=which goes]], from a root “to go, wander”, the year being a “going around”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus is its first author,^(Köbler 2010) who has ''triennio post … adveniō domum'', “three years later I come home”, in the ''Mostellaria''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a period of three years, and ''trienniō ante'' and ''trienniō post'' are three years before and after, as in Plautus and Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “space of three years”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus has ''trienniō post''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero has ''biennium aut triennium''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A period of three years;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995) ''trienniō post'', three years later.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[triennālis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[biennium]]

+ * [[annus]]

+ * [[triennis]]

+ * [[en|triennium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}