quinquennium Latin · revision 32339

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *penkʷe, ine-pro *h₂et-no-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quīnquennium''' ''n'' (genitive quīnquenniī or quīnquennī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|quīnque|t=five]] and [[m|la|annus|t=year]] with the suffix ⟨-ium⟩,^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) or from the adjective [[m|la|quīnquennis|t=five years old]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|quīnque]] to [[itc-pro|*kʷenkʷe]] and [[ine-pro|*penkʷe|t=five]], and [[m|la|annus]] to [[itc-pro|*atno-|t=year]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂et-no-|t=year]], from a root meaning to go, the year being the one that goes round;^(de Vaan 2008) he compares [[osc|akeneí|t=in the year]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler finds it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) whose ''De legibus'' prescribes that the censors hold office for five years.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a period of five years; by the Roman habit of counting inclusively it could also be a period of four.^(OLD 2012) Ovid uses the plural poetically, three quinquennia for fifteen years.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) In Church Latin it keeps the plain sense of a five-year period.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the censors' five-year term.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of fifteen years as three quinquennia.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A period of five years, a [[m|en|quinquennium]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(poetic, plural)'' Used in multiples, as tria quinquennia, fifteen years.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[quinquennātus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}