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单词 quinquennium
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quinquenniumn.

Brit. /kwɪŋˈkwɛnɪəm/, /kwɪnˈkwɛnɪəm/, U.S. /kwɪŋˈkwɛniəm/
Inflections: Plural quinquennia, quinquenniums.
Forms: 1500s– quinquennium, 1700s quinquenium.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quīnquennium.
Etymology: < classical Latin quīnquennium period of five years (counting inclusively) < quīnque- quinque- comb. form + annus year (see annals n.) + -ium (see -y suffix4). Compare earlier quinquennie n.Compare the following earlier use of the classical Latin word in an English context:1563 J. Foxe tr. Julian, Cardinal of St. Augen in Actes & Monuments 332/1 It is not prohibited to celebrate it [sc. a councel] after, neyther doth this word, In quinquennium. That is to saye against fiue yeare, next followyng.
A period or term of five years.Formerly, in Law: †a five year period allowed for the repayment of debt (obsolete).
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years
hendecadOE
a week of yearsa1382
weekc1384
Olympiada1387
lustre1387
yearc1425
millenary1551
prenticeship1553
septenary1576
lustrum1590
quinquennal1590
seventy1590
septimane1603
quinquennie1606
threescore (years) and tena1616
duodecad1621
quinquennium1621
jubilee1643
quadrenniala1646
chiliad1653
septennary1659
septennium1660
triennial1661
millennium1664
tetraëterid1678
octennial1679
duodenary1681
quadrennium1779
septenniad1836
quinquenniad1842
milliad1843
tricentenary1846
triennium1847
vicennium1847
bimillenary1850
lustration1853
sexennium1858
septennate1874
quinquennial1877
pentad1880
sexennate1898
aeon1960
1621 B. Jonson Gypsies Metamorph. in Wks. (Rtldg.) 619/1 He..looks as if he never saw his quinquennium.
1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 77 I am but young, and have not seen more then a Quinquennium of my reign.
1703 R. Fleming Pract. Disc. Occas. Death King William (ed. 2) 154 If Nero himself had died in the beginning of his Reign, or before his Quinquennium was run out, he had been rankt among the best Emperors.
a1772 Ess. from Batchelor (1773) II. 204 In the quinquenium [sic] of Lord Townshend's administrations.
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Quinquennium, a respite of five years, which insolvent debtors formerly obtained, by virtue of the King's letter, to have time for the payment of their debts.
1851 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 14 1 The quinquennium 1840–45 is the most favourable in that point of view.
1879 W. Gladstone in 19th Cent. Sept. 580 The last quinquennium of trade does not exhibit an increase.
1908 Daily Chron. 29 May 5/7 Sir Edward Grey, who is mainly responsible for the ratification by this country of the Additional Act extending the Convention for another quinquennium.
1989 Internat. Jrnl. Epidemiol. 18 466/1 Maternal mortality rates and numbers of events for the two quinquennia 1960–64 and 1975–79 are presented in Table 1.
2005 L. Holford-Strevens Hist. Time vi. 94 The inscription itself presents a quinquennium or 5-year cycle of 62 lunar months.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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