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单词 diennial
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diennialadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin diennis , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin diennis of two years (15th cent.), alteration (after di- di- comb. form) of biennis (see biennial adj.) + -al suffix1.Post-classical Latin diennis is attributed (e.g. in 17th-cent. Latin-English dictionaries) to Macrobius, but he uses only biennis. Compare post-classical Latin diennium period of two years (recorded in glossaries).
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
= biennial adj.
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Diennial, of or pertaining to two years.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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