quadriennium Latin · revision 33585

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *kwétuōr, ine-pro *h2et-no-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quadriennium''' ''n'' (genitive quadrienniī or quadriennī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quadri-|annus|-ium|t1=four|t2=year]],^(OLD 2012) or [[m|la|quadriennis|t=of four years]] with [[m|la|-ium]].^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|quattuor]] to [[ine-pro|*kwétuōr|t=four]] and [[m|la|annus]] to [[itc-pro|*atno-]] and [[ine-pro|*h2et-no-|t=a year]], from a root meaning “to go”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cato.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a period of four years,^(OLD 2012) which Lewis & Short call classical, citing Cicero's speeches and ''On Old Age''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the ablative ''quadriennio'' it means within four years, as Florus' war finished within four years, and for a space of four years, as Livy's men who had not served for four years and Pliny the Elder's doors that had stood four years in their glue.^(OLD 2012) ''Quadriennio ante'' and ''post'' are four years before and after.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it keeps the sense of a period of four years.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, in his speeches.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of men who had not served for four years.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A period of four years, [[m|en|quadrennium]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''quadriennio'': within four years; for four years.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quadriennis]]

+ * [[biennium]]

+ * [[triennium]]

+ * [[annus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}